Smart campus

The smart campus is one that learns by itself how to best support its "occupants". We create the desired situation in buildings based on data collected through sensors, automatically for education and research.

Pilot 2: Wayfinding

Everyone recognises the image of the student wandering through buildings in search of the classroom, you remember the vague panic of yourself when you had to deal with this. Educational buildings seem huge, cluttered, almost intimidating. Through wayfinding, we would like to help students, as well as staff and guests, find their way.

What is wayfinding?

Wayfinding is about ways to help students, staff and guests orientate and navigate within the campus. The information used here can focus on all kinds of knowledge areas and is not limited to routing only. For example, the information can also be adapted to the type of user.

In the future, this digital aide is expected to become a natural feature within buildings like Google Maps already is on the road. Wayfinding can help you really feel at home on a campus.

Pilot wayfinding; finding your way on the smart campus

At various MBOs, HBOs and universities, there is a need for a well-equipped digital wayfinder. Several institutions are also already working on this in their own way, or have this topic on their roadmap.

In May 2023, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences and SURF organised an interactive meeting to reflect on the wishes, experiences, knowledge and expertise around wayfinding. The findings, solutions and recommendations of this pilot can be found in the report Wayfinding - State of affairs 2023.

Report

Rapport Wayfinding stand van zaken 2023

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