IoT002 Main Library Occupancy Monitoring Pilot - Project Brief

Back ground: The aim of this project is to establish occupancy level monitoring in a shared student study space, with an option to extend this to the CRC reading room following discussions with the Head of Special collections.  These will be used for proof of concept testing for IoT technologies, while at the same time, demonstrating real world applications for the technology.

The pilot is expected to run for circa 1 year to allow a sufficient body of data to be collected for analysis.

The monitoring systems deployed by this project will not capture any personal information, but a Privacy Impact Assessment was undertaken to ensure compliance with data protection legislation.

The occupancy monitoring of the shared study space will run in parallel with a wider pilot project, being managed by User Services, to monitor occupancy levels across study areas in the lower ground floor, using an off the shelf product.

Objectives: To deploy IoT devices and sensors to capture occupancy level data from the target room(s).  The pilot will allow us to build and demonstrate our capability with IoT infrastructure, as well as giving us an understanding of the occupancy levels in the monitored rooms, which may help underpin future choices in provisioning meeting room facilities.  To ensure data privacy issues are understood addressed by carrying out a Privacy Impact assessment.

Scope: The scope of this project is limited to a single shared study space in the Main Library, with an option to extend this to the CRC reading room, following discussions with the Head of Special Collections

Benefits: The pilot will allow us to build and demonstrate our capability with IoT infrastructure, as well as giving us an understanding of the occupancy levels in the monitored rooms. It will also allow us to monitor environmental factors in the open office.   This may help underpin future choices in provisioning meeting room facilities and provide an understanding of the open office environment.  To enable UoE teams to become familiar with IoT technologies.

Priority and Funding: This project is an initial proof of concept project within the IoT programme and it is core funded.