IoT and Data Visualization to Enhance Hyperlocal Data in a Smart Campus Context

Internet of Thing and data visualization have been exploited in several contexts to put into effect intelligent environments. What we argue in this paper is that these emerging areas, and related technologies, have a real potential to be explored to benefit communities, answering to their needs and interests and let their members be active participants. To prove our reflections, we designed and developed i) an infrastructure made of sensors to collect real-time data, and ii) a rich web-based application to interact with data in a specific scenario: a University campus. To complement our system, we plan to give the students' community the possibility to contribute to the whole system, not only with ideas (e.g., participatory design and user-driven innovation) and data (e.g., crowdsourcing and crowdsensing) but also with sensors to plug-in into the infrastructure and visualization add-ons to represent the gathered data.