What do we usually mean by saying an intelligent campus? What’s the difference between smart campus and intelligent campus?

Recently, a project titled “An Integrated and Intelligent Campus” bring up with a brand new campus operation and maintenance system by building a 3D data environment for the campus. The project also won a prize in the local BIM competition in the university categories.

The team leader Nan Lu, also an MSc BIM programme student, said that intelligent campus, compared with smart campus, “has the faculty of thinking, reasoning, and understanding, with the capability of not only making adjustments but also learning and adapting in response to the changing circumstances”.

In the project, students divided the proposal into three stages. They are data collection, data processing and data visualisation. Based on the existing data, and the data collected with geospatial sensors, they are going to apply different types of sensors, antennas, mirco-controllers on the campus to collect information such as temperature, humidity and etcetera. The data is shared and co-managed by several departments and through data visualisation it is also accessible on mobile application.

Following that, students build a basic campus information model and it is modified by the real-time data collected by all these sensors. When an error happened, the model will go through a self-correction. Therefore, the system will learn and adapt in response to the changing circumstances.

The project was part of the module Global Smart Cities integrated with BIM in the MSc in Geospatial Engineering with Building Information Modelling programme. The project aims to help students to understand, design and develop a comprehensive, intelligent and integrated platform that could allow end user interaction with the 3D information modelling.

The project team consists of four PG students including Nan Lu (team leader), Cesar Quintero Yepez, Ravil Misalimov, Sudhir Thapa and one Final year Civil Engineering student Novianti and one PhD candidate Tianlun Yang.

The project supervisor Dr Georgios Kapogiannis, also the course director of MSc BIM programme, feels proud of his students. He also illustrated that the project is a clear illustration on how COVID-19 push digitalization and innovation in smart cities. During the project, many team members were blocked in their hometown and could not have their way back to campus. They worked remotely and collaboratively using Common Data Environment – CDE Autodesk 360, Moodle and for Design tools among others they used: Revit, Naviswork, HTTP, OSI (for networks), IESVE, Infraworks, 3D Civil, HEC-RAS.

If you are interested in this project, please feel free to check the following link.

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MSc in Geospatial Engineering with Building Information Modelling programme aims to develop the next generation of Geo-BIM Experts by offering the state of the art teaching facilities and technologies that will allow them to be competent, innovative and critical thinkers. It is a joint programme between the Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Architecture and Built Environment.