CHALLENGE
Network infrastructure as a barrier to new school teaching materials
Internet 100 boxes store IoT-connected sensors and fixed point cameras that measure temperature, humidity and more in school facilities. These connected devices can be found in the 100 box cabin, and the data that is acquired from the sensors is transferred to the cloud.
Uchida Yoko hopes to use the accumulated data as teaching material for colleges and universities.
However, while most teachers want Uchida Yoko’s new Internet 100 boxes to be installed, the school facilities worry about the cost of laying out network infrastructure to support this IoT project.
In addition, installing IoT-connected equipment in outdoor locations, especially those that are remote, are vulnerable to environmental factors.
With thousands of sensors being deployed, it’d be difficult to manually track and monitor each device to determine if they are fully operational.