HR4RS stamp
Jaime Riveiro Fernandez
With the aim of creating a connected, efficient and sustainable campus, the Smart Campus Fuenlabrada Project was born, whose first phase has dealt with the implementation of a network of IoT LoRa nodes / sensors connected to an open and accessible LoRaWAN Wireless Network Infrastructure in the Fuenlabrada campus. The Rey Juan Carlos University has organized this project in collaboration with three companies specialized in this type of technology: REDEXIA, ALAI SECURE (GRUPO INGENIUM) and IBM.
“This Smart Campus project is based on the creation of work environments for teaching and research activities that are safe, healthy, energy efficient, sustainable with their environment, flexible and adaptable to the present and future needs of the University, supported and promoted by digital technologies and global connectivity”, explains Javier Orellana, Technical Manager of the URJC Energy Efficiency Unit. The system seeks to have a telemetry solution for measuring parameters related to environmental comfort in classrooms.
Thus, the University will be able to monitor in real time the status of all the deployed LoRa sensors, as well as their location, correct operation and the variables in question that affect environmental comfort in each of the classrooms. These are ambient temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, ambient light, CO2, and TVOC (total volatile organic compounds). In this way, it will be possible to optimize the operation of the University's control systems, in addition to simplifying decision-making.
Organization and creation of the system
The Smart Campus Fuenlabrada Project is carried out by REDEXIA, ALAI SECURE, IBM and URJC, who have been in charge of the acquisition and deployment of IoT LoRa devices for the measurement of different environmental variables. “Internally, the project has been led by the URJC Vice President for Innovation and Transfer, supported by a multidisciplinary team made up of the Energy Efficiency Unit (UNEFE), the Signal Theory and Communications Area and the Electronic Technology Area. of the University”, says Orellana.
On the other hand, REDEXIA has created the LoRaWAN network infrastructure by installing a Gateway on the campus, ALAI SECURE has taken care of the cloud routing and provisioning functions in the Network Server and IBM has provided the DB environment in its cloud to manage information. Thanks to all this, "the University has developed a graphical environment that allows the visualization of the data stored in that database in such a way that the existing control systems in buildings can be analyzed and improved," adds Orellana.
The future of Smart Campus Fuenlabrada
This first step has focused on measuring environmental conditions, both indoors and outdoors. However, the project will continue to advance and grow with the inclusion of new data related to aspects that "make up the ecosystem of a small city such as a university campus," Orellana points out. Among them are the occupation of buildings, irrigation control in green areas, intelligent waste management, optimization of energy consumption, access, communications, management of parking spaces, mobility and recharging points. .
