IoT System Infrastructure Design for Management of Specialized Engineering Education Laboratories (#919)

Authors

Mendoza Chomba, Jorge Esteban

Zelada Mosquera, Danny Stephan

Abstract

The present research work is based on the design of an integral management system that links two fundamental perspectives of a specialized engineering teaching laboratory; The first being the internal functioning of the environment, which includes records of use and maintenance of equipment, consumption of supplies, training of user personnel, entry and exit of PPE's and low assets; and the second, the indicators of the specialized engineering laboratory as part of a university campus, such as the use of the environment, the number of hours used for the development of classes in comparison with those used for the development of research work, the energy expenditure of the environment and the management of access to it. Seen in this way, the management of a specialized laboratory within a university campus is a shared responsibility between the academic area of management of specialized environments (laboratory supervisor) and the area of academic campus operations, both having to report to the different administrative areas. that require information from the specialized laboratory for various purposes, such as infrastructure maintenance, generation of quality indicators, use analysis for projections to subsequent periods, etc. This can result, and does indeed result, in redundant requests for information to both areas. It is in consideration of these factors and requirements that it is decided to design, based on the current flow of information, a comprehensive management system that allows monitoring, recording and in specific stages, automate the management processes of the specialized laboratory; Through the design and simulation of the integral system, the times that can be optimized through this and its respective cost have been calculated, either in energy and/or man-hours, as well as the necessary considerations for its implementation in another environment type. Thus, the main advantages of the system have been found to be the automation of access to the environments through the NFC identification of the teacher or authorized users, simultaneously generating an automatic record of the same and linking the activity of the laboratory with the enabling electrical power outlets and activating lights, projectors and computers to optimize energy consumption in the environment and generating accurate data on its use, data that will be complemented by the other part of the system, which records information on the equipment and materials used During the class session, this second stage of the system has the laboratory supervisor as administrator, who can also use it to record the entry of new equipment, removal and maintenance of these, thus feeding a database of both assets, as well as records of use in order to allow related areas to access this updated information in time. real po without the need to make a new information request.