Enabling Sustainability and Energy Awareness in Schools Based on IoT and Real-World Data

Georgios Mylonas, Dimitrios Amaxilatis, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Aris Anagnostopoulos, Federica Paganelli
2018 IEEE pervasive computing  
Having these in mind, we discuss an education-focused IoT platform comprising a real-world IoT infrastructure deployed in a number of educational buildings in Europe and a Service Platform offering uniform APIs for data access, supplemented by a software toolset aiming at both helping in educating students on energy and environmental matters, and at achieving better energy efficiency. This deployment has been developed in the context of the GAIA (Green Awareness In Action, gaia-project.eu) EU
more » ... oject. Our platform is currently operating in 19 school buildings in Greece, Italy and Sweden. Leveraging this experience, we discuss how IoT technologies can be applied inside schools, creating educational value on the one hand, and on the other one financial benefits for schools. We expect to achieve multiple benefits by focusing on increasing energy awareness and behavioral change, and we provide some first results that point to such aspects, along with preliminary enduser feedback from trials inside schools.
doi:10.1109/mprv.2018.2873855 fatcat:ufzsnxoij5bbrcrc6wqqr2udae