Smart Technologies for the Monitoring of Student’s Well-Being in Learning Spaces

Abstract

When currently humans spend majority of their lives inside buildings, naturally it follows that the quality of these spaces will have significant influence over well-being. This is particularly important in terms of schools because students’ learning is critical to their future, and they typically spend most of the day in school spaces for several years. Currently, there is little emphasis and regulation on the relationship between people and indoor quality, so building practices often neglect initiatives that keep student’s well-being in mind. Present school buildings are too often merely structures, failing to reach their potential in cultivating student potential.
For these reasons a monitor is an effective tool to measure the environmental quality in which students spend time in and use the information collected to optimize learning spaces. The goal of this smart technology was to collect data in both indoor and outdoor spaces and to store and analyze this data. To achieve this an Arduino open source prototyping platform was combined with sensors, which make up the wireless monitor. Collected data was stored on a removable SD card until uploaded to a computer for processing.

Discipline: Engineering

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Davis