BUILDING A SMART CAMPUS NETWORK AND DATA ANALYSIS USING HADOOP

With the advent of network providers and ever-increasing bandwidth of the internet, the web has been used to facilitate not only information but also businesses such as Amazon, video streaming such as YouTube, websites hosting various certifications such as Coursera, etc. The motivation of our work is to build a smart information tool, which acts as a bridge between a professor and students. A web portal is designed and developed for the betterment of the learning processes which seamlessly integrates the different components of а college education system such as a forum, Learning Management System (LMS), career page for informing students of upcoming jobs and internship opportunities. Various features like private chatting among different entities, inbox or email to establish communication links, educational document exchange, quiz, interactive scheduling calendar, announcements, notifications, multiple mechanisms for teacher interaction, and box for doubt clearing. It acts as a smart and intelligent information sharing platform for the students and teachers as they would be able to put their messages and ideas easily. To make the environment too smart, an intelligent car parking system is also introduced to reduce the congestion of car parking and reduce waste of time in parking. It also enables the drivers to reserve a parking space and view the parking status at university. The requirements for the developed system were collected using observation, interviewing the faculties, visitors, parents, students and staff members of the University. The data visualization plays a major role to evaluate the performance in the working environment and Hadoop platform used here to boost the performance. Finally, data analytics is performed by accumulating data from various sources like staff-student activities, placement activities and parking slots to enhance the performance in the education sector.