SPACE: An Empirical Approach towards a User-Centric Smart Campus

Making a campus smart involves a wide variety of devices, users, and other stakeholders. This gives rise to many issues including scalability, extensibility, user-centricity, and cost in terms of both deployment and maintenance. To overcome these issues, we propose a novel platform called SPACE that (1) enables end-to-end commanding and execution of tasks on a smart campus operation in a distributed and modulated manner, and (2) attempts to mitigate the above-mentioned issues. As an initial research testbed, the proposed SPACE has been deployed for di�erent scenarios in a university campus including a classroom, a faculty o�ce, and a lab. This paper empirically reports how the SPACE system enables a smart campus testbed and further lessons from the deployment