Towards a smart campus: Innovative applications with WiCloud platform based on mobile edge computing

A smart campus refers to a campus where modern information and communication technologies bring more convenience to campus life, assist campus users to improve and more efficiently accomplish their daily activities, and enhance social interactions. Regarding the high demand of services such as mining campus users' semantic information, building augmented reality assisted mobile campus and smart class, we establish an innovative platform, namely, WiCloud, based on Mobile Edge Computing, to provide multiple innovative applications towards a smart campus. We first briefly present the architecture, implementation, and the basic functions of our WiCloud platform. We then elaborate three highly innovative applications, (i) campus users' semantic information analysis, (ii) mobile augmented reality assisted smart campus, and (iii) smart class, that are developed based on WiCloud. Multiple examples of each innovative application demonstrate the innovative applications based on WiCloud perform well and have achieved the goal of benefiting campus users and building a smart campus.