Developing an Indoor Location Guidance System for a College Campus Environment

The COVID-19 pandemic forced most institutions of higher education to offer instruction and activities offsite, impacting millions of people. As universities consider resuming normal operations on campus, evidence-based guidance is needed to enhance safety protocols to reduce the spread of infectious disease in their campus environments. During the 2020/2021 academic year, Gannon University in Erie, PA, USA, was able to maintain most of its operations on campus. Part of Gannon’s disease mitigation strategy involved the development of a novel in-house, real-time RT-PCR-based surveillance program, which tested 23,227 samples to monitor the presence of COVID-19 on campus. Temporal trends of COVID-19 infection at Gannon were distinct from statewide data. A significant portion of this variance involved student athletes and associated staff, which identified as a higher incidence risk group compared with non-athletes. Rapid identification of athlete driven outbreaks allowed for swift action to limit the spread of COVID-19 among teammates and to the rest of the campus community. This allowed for successful completion of instruction and a modified season for all sports at Gannon. Our findings provide insights that could prove useful to the thousands of institutions seeking to resume a more traditional presence on campus.

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Seamless Guidance System Combining GPS, BLE Beacon, and NFC Technologies

Mobile Information Systems ◽

10.1155/2016/5032365 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2016 ◽

pp. 1-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Rung-Shiang Cheng ◽

Wei-Jun Hong ◽

Jheng-Syun Wang ◽

Kawuu W. Lin

Keyword(s):

Global Positioning System ◽

Near Field ◽

Smart Phone ◽

Location Based Services ◽

Guidance System ◽

Campus Environment ◽

Accurate Localization ◽

Global Positioning ◽

Graphic Information ◽

Outdoor Environments

Users rely increasingly on Location-Based Services (LBS) and automated navigation/guidance systems nowadays. However, while such services are easily implemented in outdoor environments using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, a requirement still exists for accurate localization and guidance schemes in indoor settings. Accordingly, the present study proposes a system based on GPS, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons, and Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. Through establishing graphic information and the design of algorithm, this study develops a guidance system for indoors and outdoors on smart phones, wishing to give user perfect smart life through this system. The proposed system is implemented on a smart phone and evaluated on a student campus environment. The experimental results confirm the ability of the proposed app to switch automatically from an outdoor mode to an indoor mode and to guide the user to requested target destination via the shortest possible route.

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PENGEMBANGAN UNIT PENANGKAR BIBIT LADA BERKUALITAS DI POLITEKNIK NEGERI LAMPUNG

J-Dinamika ◽

10.25047/j-dinamika.v3i2.1039 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Bambang Utoyo ◽

Adryade Reshi Gusta ◽

Yan Sukmawan ◽

Made Same

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

College Campus ◽

Small Scale ◽

Competency Development ◽

Campus Environment ◽

Business Units ◽

The Impact ◽

Training Service ◽

And Training

Pepper is one of the spice crops that contribute to improving the Indonesian economy. Pepper cultivation is carried out on a small scale to a large scale. Pepper propagation by cutting is considered quite effective and efficient. Politeknik Negeri Lampung has been develop the Pepper Nursery Unit since 2007. This unit runs a business in the production of climbing pepper seedling, shrub pepper seedling, and pepper nursery training. The aim of this program is to support the mission of Politeknik Negeri Lampung in preparing itself to face college campus autonomy through the acquisition of revenue from established business units, accelerating the process of developing an entrepreneurial cultural system in the campus environment, providing competency development opportunities for staff and students, and increasing the role of the Politeknik Negeri Lampung for the community, especially in agriculture. The impact of this program is the availability of hight quality pepper seedling, increasing income generating Politeknik Negeri Lampung, establishment of the Pepper Nursery Unit and training service, improving the skills of Politeknik Negeri Lampung students in pepper nursery, developing entrepreneurial potential for students and staff, as well as increasing the role of Lampung State Polytechnic in community service activities.Keywords—Campus entrepreuneurship, estate crop, nursery business.

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What Are the Buildings Saying? A Study of First-Year Undergraduate Students' Attributions About College Campus Architecture

NASPA Journal ◽

10.2202/0027-6014.1140 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Michael A. Bennett ◽

Stephen L. Benton

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Semantic Differential ◽

College Campus ◽

Male Students ◽

First Year ◽

Traditional Architecture ◽

Campus Environment ◽

Greco Roman ◽

Psychology Course ◽

Individual Success

The purpose of this study was to determine the attributions college students make toward pictures of college campus buildings. Participants were 301 first-year undergraduates (56.2% female, median age = 19.91 years) enrolled in an educational psychology course within a large midwestern university. Students responded to a semantic differential containing 17 bipolar adjectives, each anchored to a 7-point scale, that asked students to attribute characteristics about a college/university (e.g., "difficult-easy," "large-small," "success-failure") to one of 10 photographs. Students were randomly assigned to one of the 10 photograph conditions (i.e., two Collegiate Gothic, two Greco-Roman, one Romanesque, and five modern structures). Factor analysis revealed three primary factors underlie the semantic differential: Evaluation of Individual Success, Potency of the Campus Environment, and Stimulation of the Campus Environment. Students attributed greater likelihood of individual success to pictures depicting modern architecture than they did to those depicting traditional architecture. Regardless of the type of architecture, male students attributed greater likelihood of individual success than did female students.

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Characteristics of University Landscape Planning and Design

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.250-253.3401 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 250-253 ◽

pp. 3401-3404

Author(s):

Shi Ying Wang

Keyword(s):

Landscape Planning ◽

College Campus ◽

University Campus ◽

High Quality ◽

Campus Environment ◽

Planning And Design ◽

Organic Growth ◽

The University ◽

The Impact

The impact of the campus environment is an important factor in the quality of college campus, it is closely related to the school's image, brand, honor, and quality. Therefore, building high-quality, high-quality university campus landscape has drawn attention of colleges and universities increasingly. In order to build a campus environment with good ecological environment, beautiful landscape, vibrant and rich cultural atmosphere, we need to understand the nature of university landscape planning design. With the purpose of in promoting and exemplifying the university landscape planning and design, the thesis will illustrate from the following aspects: the design of campus landscape is to build an organic growth, carrying the material carriers the school even the human spirit the cities, and with the responsibility of integrational function.

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