Objectives
Introduce students to
the concepts ‘smart building’ and ‘the internet of things’
design principles and technologies that are used to create smart buildings
how computing solutions can support solutions for the common good
how sensors, message passing, and event handling implement ‘smart building’ technology
Anticipated learner outcomes
Students will be able to
explain what makes a building ‘smart’
explain how sensors, event handling, and message passing are used to support ‘the Internet of things’
design experiments to collect data on the environmental and social needs of a physical environment
develop a proposal for a solution to an identified need in a physical environment
Recommended Reading
http://www.buildingefficiencyinitiative.org/articles/what-smart-building
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things
https://www.intorobotics.com/pick-best-temperature-sensor-arduino-project/comment-page-1/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_passing
Optional Writing Activity
As a team you identified an environmental or social need in your school that could benefit from ‘smart building’ technology that works through concepts from ‘the internet of things’. Summarize your identified problem and proposed solution and discuss how you would ‘sell’ the project to your school administration.