University of Things: Opportunities and Challenges for a Smart Campus Environment based on IoT Sensors and Business Processes

The university of things is an academic institution full of sensors, data, and automated processes. The collection of information and states about objects and things enables diverse research and studies in the field of information systems. This paper presents a research project, where we have set up a Smart Campus infrastructure based on Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) communication technology. From our real-world deployment, as well as from academic literature, we have identified 6 opportunities and 11 challenges for the integration and use of sensor data for business processes at universities, which are shown in this paper.