Building a Sustainable, Energy-Efficient, and Secure European University using LoRaWAN: Protect your Digital Ecosystem and Enjoy!

13 pages•Published: January 13, 2025

Georgios Roussos, Dimos Charidimou, Anastasios Petalotis and Angeliki Agorogianni

Abstract

This paper sheds light on integrating LoRaWAN technology—a Long-Range and Low- Power, wide-area networking protocol—within the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) to create a sustainable, energy-efficient, secure European multi-campus university ecosystem. The AUTh project advances asset management and surveillance practices through the IoT with LoRaWAN. This research articulates the project's lifecycle from design to operation, highlighting energy and cost savings alongside enhanced coverage. It emphasizes the system's scalability, with plans to extend the network across five campuses. AUTh showcases the substantial impact and positive outcomes such as increased safety, improved resource management, and alignment with European intelligent and eco-green standards for all HEIs. On the other hand, this case study provides detailed insights into the challenges, solutions, and best practices encountered, serving as a blueprint for educational institutions seeking to employ IoT technologies for enhanced asset management, security, and efficiency. Lastly, this study highlights the transformative impact of the project and, generally, LoRa technology in creating a connected, intelligent educational environment, setting a new standard for IoT applications in Higher Education inside and outside of Europe.

Keyphrases: energy efficiency in he, information systems for hei’s internal management, iot asset management, iot in higher education, iot security, lorawan, multi campus network, secure digital ecosystem, smart campus solutions, sustainability in he, technological innovation in he

In: Raimund Vogl, Laurence Desnos, Jean-François Desnos, Spiros Bolis, Lazaros Merakos, Gill Ferrell, Effie Tsili and Manos Roumeliotis (editors). Proceedings of EUNIS 2024 annual congress in Athens, vol 105, pages 232-244.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/cgjD
	https://doi.org/10.29007/sqsg

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{EUNIS2024:Building_Sustainable_Energy_Efficient,
  author    = {Georgios Roussos and Dimos Charidimou and Anastasios Petalotis and Angeliki Agorogianni},
  title     = {Building a Sustainable, Energy-Efficient, and Secure European University using LoRaWAN: Protect your Digital Ecosystem and Enjoy!},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of EUNIS 2024 annual congress in Athens},
  editor    = {Raimund Vogl and Laurence Desnos and Jean-François Desnos and Spiros Bolis and Lazaros Merakos and Gill Ferrell and Effie Tsili and Manos Roumeliotis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {105},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/cgjD},
  doi       = {10.29007/sqsg},
  pages     = {232-244},
  year      = {2025}}

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