The Smart University Experience: An NFC-Based Ubiquitous Environment

Author

Bueno-Delgado, M.V. ; Pavón-Marino, P. ; De-Gea-García, A. ; Dolón-García, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Tecnol. de la Informacion y las Comun., Univ. Politec. de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain

fYear

2012

fDate

4-6 July 2012

Firstpage

799

Lastpage

804

Abstract

EHEA guidelines are promoting the modernization of the universities all over Europe, focusing on the implementation of new technologies to get services offered by universities closer to society. With this idea in mind, the Technical University of Cartagena is deeply involved in the development and implementation of the so-called Smart University model: a ubiquitous computing platform based on NFC, where NFC devices and applications interact with each other to provide an intelligent environment. Before dealing with this ambitious project, a study to know the impact of the NFC technology in the university society was carried out. Positive results encouraged the idea of the Smart University, and two innovative NFC projects have been addressed: a NFC-attendance-registering-system and a NFC-administrative-fees-payment-system.

Keywords

educational administrative data processing; educational institutions; further education; near-field communication; ubiquitous computing; EHEA guidelines; European higher education area; NFC technology; NFC-administrative-fees-payment-system; NFC-attendance-registering-system; NFC-based ubiquitous environment; Technical University of Cartagena; near field communication; smart university experience; ubiquitous computing platform; Credit cards; Educational institutions; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Registers; Servers; Software; EHEA; NFC; RFID; Smart University;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS), 2012 Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Palermo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1328-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMIS.2012.110

Filename

6296956