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Using privacy-friendly crowd counting sensors to create a smart environment for education
Boersen, P.J. (2024) Using privacy-friendly crowd counting sensors to create a smart environment for education.
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| Abstract: | Privacy is very important in the 21st century. One way of offering this is via anonymity. Currently, most crowd counting sensors use video footage, which can’t offer this. This research aims to create a privacy friendly non-image based crowd counting sensor and use it to create a smart environment for studying. This is done by researching available non-image based crowd counting methods and findings of students’ study space preferences. Then, an ethnographic interview of users of the study space is performed, after which brainstorming is done to create smart environment ideas. Afterwards, the product is realised using functional and nonfunctional requirements, and evaluated using experiments and interviews. Plans for improvements and further work are made. It was found that offering insight into the usage of a study space might be useful to users, by showing them how much room is left and inviting them to visit. This can be done via a website, where data is best displayed using graphs that show expected usage of rooms throughout the week. Also, a screen that visualises how busy a room is might connect different parts of the building to make rooms more interconnected and invite people to socialise. Furthermore, using crowd tracking might enable users to see what facilities are available. Crowd counting data for this purpose can best be measured using a passive infrared sensor located in the doorway combined with another sensor which makes estimations based on current measurements only. Finally, passive infrared sensors do not work as well on people wearing headwear. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Subject: | 54 computer science, 81 education, teaching |
| Programme: | Creative Technology BSc (50447) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/103343 |
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