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68 Citations
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Smart Classrooms: How Sensors and AI Are Shaping Educational Paradigms

  • Xiaochen Zhang,
  • Yiran Ding,
  • Xiaoyu Huang,
  • Wujing Li and ,
  • Liumei Long and
  • Shiyao Ding
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 August 2024

The integration of advanced technologies is revolutionizing classrooms, significantly enhancing their intelligence, interactivity, and personalization. Central to this transformation are sensor technologies, which play pivotal roles. While numerous s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Educational Systems: Hardware and Software Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,037 Views
25 Pages

The Effects of Spatial Experience and Preferences in Smart Classrooms on Student Learning Engagement

  • Yibin Ao,
  • Yuyi Zhou,
  • Panyu Peng,
  • Xiang Li and ,
  • Igor Martek and
  • Luwei Jia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

A smart classroom integrates emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things and cloud computing, optimizes resource allocation, and transforms classroom interaction. A smart classroom encourages students to participate in a pressing concern as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends and Prospects in Indoor Environment of Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,031 Views
20 Pages

10 November 2023

Technology’s involvement in teaching and learning is identified as an opportunity to bolster sustainable development in education. However, how it influences teaching quality and classroom interaction is a hotly debated subject, and the variati...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,351 Views
21 Pages

A Scalable Architecture for the Dynamic Deployment of Multimodal Learning Analytics Applications in Smart Classrooms

  • Alberto Huertas Celdrán,
  • José A. Ruipérez-Valiente,
  • Félix J. García Clemente,
  • María Jesús Rodríguez-Triana and ,
  • Shashi Kant Shankar and
  • Gregorio Martínez Pérez
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 May 2020

The smart classrooms of the future will use different software, devices and wearables as an integral part of the learning process. These educational applications generate a large amount of data from different sources. The area of Multimodal Learning...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teaching and Learning Advances on Sensors for IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
255 Views
16 Pages

19 October 2026

Smart-classroom teaching evaluation increasingly relies on heterogeneous sensing sources, including classroom cameras, microphones, speech-recognition systems, and learning-platform interaction logs. Existing systems often treat these streams as sepa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI and Sensors in Computer-Based Educational Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,461 Views
37 Pages

5 June 2026

This study proposes a reproducible methodology for optimizing occupancy sensor placement and assessing the sustainable energy performance of smart lighting systems in university classrooms. The research was conducted in Block H of the South Campus of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Grid and Sustainable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,045 Views
13 Pages

5 July 2022

Interaction in the classroom plays the key role for cultivating students’ 21st century skills. Insufficient breadth of interaction, uneven interaction opportunities, and chaotic interaction existed in many classrooms. With the integration of te...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,759 Views
17 Pages

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into smart classrooms (SCs) has accelerated in recent years, fostering new forms of interaction, personalization, and data-driven educational decision-making. Despite this growing interest, the literatu...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
116 Citations
16,798 Views
34 Pages

A Context Aware Smart Classroom Architecture for Smart Campuses

  • Li-Shing Huang,
  • Jui-Yuan Su and
  • Tsang-Long Pao

3 May 2019

The Smart campus is a concept of an education institute using technologies, such as information systems, internet of things (IoT), and context-aware computing, to support learning, teaching, and administrative activities. Classrooms are important bui...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Raspberry Things (IoRT): Applications, Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,245 Views
25 Pages

30 September 2023

A robust and scientifically grounded teaching evaluation system holds significant importance in modern education, serving as a crucial metric that reflects the quality of classroom instruction. However, current methodologies within smart classroom en...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors Data Processing Using Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
113 Citations
14,159 Views
18 Pages

9 April 2020

Educational institutions are envisioned as principal agents for addressing the current sustainability challenge that society is facing. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is transformational and concerns learning content and outcomes, pedago...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Future of Education for Sustainable Development – Between the Power of Technology and the Need for Responsible Citizenship)
  • Review
  • Open Access
81 Citations
23,308 Views
30 Pages

A Survey of Smart Classroom Literature

  • Avneet Kaur,
  • Munish Bhatia and
  • Giovanni Stea

26 January 2022

Recently, there has been a substantial amount of research on smart classrooms, encompassing a number of areas, including Information and Communication Technology, Machine Learning, Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, and Hardware. Smart classroom resea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
244 Views
37 Pages

MoCvT-SAR: A Lightweight MobileNetV4-CvT Hybrid Network for Student Activity Recognition in Smart Classrooms

  • Siham Essahraui,
  • Jouhayna Driouach,
  • Rania El-Otmani,
  • Ibrahim Ouahbi and
  • Khalid El Makkaoui

Student activity recognition (SAR) is becoming increasingly important in smart classroom environments, where automatic visual analysis can be used to analyze the activities of students. However, most of the current state-of-the-art deep learning (DL)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
13,699 Views
18 Pages

21 February 2022

Ambient conditions influence human health, emotions, and mental power. Therefore, numerous studies have been conducted in different disciplines on the measurement and control of ambient conditions in classrooms. Moreover, a number of studies identify...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,857 Views
14 Pages

The Smart Classroom: Learning Challenges in the Digital Ecosystem

  • M. Isabel Pardo-Baldoví,
  • Ángel San Martín-Alonso and
  • José Peirats-Chacón

Digital devices are causing the emergence of new learning ecosystems, including the smart classroom. This model changes the pedagogical intermediation paradigm, redefining educational values and principles. The present paper delves into this scenario...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Technology Challenges in Education for New Learning Ecosystem)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,167 Views
23 Pages

3 November 2025

The ongoing integration of information technology in education has rendered the monitoring of student behavior in smart classrooms essential for improving teaching quality and student engagement. Classroom environments frequently provide many problem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing AI Applications in Education and Engineering: A Multidisciplinary Perspective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,849 Views
19 Pages

Does the Seat Matter? The Influence of Seating Factors and Motivational Factors on Situational Engagement and Satisfaction in the Smart Classroom

  • Guoqing Lu,
  • Qingtang Liu,
  • Kui Xie,
  • Chenwen Zhang and ,
  • Xiangchun He and
  • Yafei Shi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 November 2023

As a technology-enhanced student-centered learning environment, smart classrooms are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. It is undoubtedly important to understand how seating and motivational factors affect situational engagement and s...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,027 Views
20 Pages

Smart classrooms leverage intelligent and mobile technologies to create highly interactive, student-centered environments conducive to personalized learning. However, measuring students’ personalized learning experiences in these technologicall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Approaches to Understanding Student Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,491 Views
16 Pages

14 April 2025

The proliferation of e-learning has exposed smart classroom devices and online learning platforms to ransomware attacks, threatening the integrity of educational processes. This study introduced a novel trust-based crowdsourcing framework to mitigate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things Security: Shaping the Future of Secure Connected Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,353 Views
18 Pages

4 July 2024

Cognitive engagement is a crucial factor that shapes successful learning outcomes, but our understanding of the factors that influence such engagement in the smart classroom context remains limited. This study aims to narrow this research gap by expl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
11,853 Views
26 Pages

Illumination is one of the most important environmental factors in the classroom. Researchers have discovered that lighting settings have significant impact on students’ performance. Although light-emitting diode (LED) lighting systems can prec...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,782 Views
15 Pages

4 November 2024

With the constant evolution of information and communication technology (ICT), smart classrooms have profoundly influenced Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) by presenting advanced ICT that markedly improved the effectiveness and quality of...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,726 Views
15 Pages

28 August 2022

The development of Industry 4.0 revolutionising the concept of automation and digitisation in an organisation poses a huge challenge in employee knowledge and skills to cope with the huge leap from Industry 3.0. The high-level digitisation of an orga...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,531 Views
26 Pages

AI-Driven Telecommunications for Smart Classrooms: Transforming Education Through Personalized Learning and Secure Networks

  • Christos Koukaras,
  • Paraskevas Koukaras,
  • Dimosthenis Ioannidis and
  • Stavros G. Stavrinides

27 March 2025

Advances in telecommunications and artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping modern educational spaces. Drawing upon diverse resources, this systematic literature review examines how these new advances including 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), and AI-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
476 Views
24 Pages

Recognizing student behaviors in classroom videos remains challenging due to complex backgrounds, frequent occlusions, subtle inter-class motion differences, and temporal jitter in frame-wise predictions. To address these issues, this paper proposes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supervised Learning Applications of Action Recognition and Action Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,197 Views
26 Pages

A Qualitative Approach to Help Adjust the Design of Management Subjects in ICT Engineering Undergraduate Programs through User Experience in a Smart Classroom Context

  • Josep Petchamé,
  • Ignasi Iriondo,
  • Eva Villegas,
  • David Fonseca and ,
  • Susana Romero Yesa and
  • Marian Aláez
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 July 2021

Qualitative research activities, including first-day of class surveys and user experience interviews on completion of a subject were carried out to obtain students’ feedback in order to improve the design of the subject ‘Information Systems’ as a par...

(This article belongs to the Collection Human-Computer Interaction in Pervasive Computing Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,067 Views
20 Pages

A TRIZ Approach for Designing a Smart Lighting and Control System for Classrooms Based on Counter Application with Dual PIR Sensors

  • Peng Lean Chong,
  • Daniel Ismail,
  • Poh Kiat Ng,
  • Feng Yuan Kong and ,
  • Mohammed Reyasudin Basir Khan and
  • Sargunam Thirugnanam
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 February 2024

Electrical energy is often wasted through human negligence when people do not switch off electrical appliances such as lighting after leaving a place. Such a scenario often happens in a classroom when the last person leaves the class and forgets to s...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,737 Views
13 Pages

This research examines the form in which undergraduates use video cameras during videoconferencing class sessions in a Smart Classroom context and, more specifically, the reasons why a considerable number of students opt to turn off their cameras whe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teaching and Learning Process: Psychological Variables in Education, New Applied Technologies and Physical Activity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,437 Views
23 Pages

10 June 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted traditional face-to-face teaching worldwide and forced education institutions to adopt new, online teaching formats to enable students to continue with their studies. This research focuses on students’ pe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Systems, E-learning and Knowledge Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,537 Views
22 Pages

2 June 2025

Accurate recognition of student emotions in smart classrooms is vital for understanding learning states. Visible light-based facial expression recognition is often affected by illumination changes, making thermal infrared imaging a promising alternat...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,382 Views
13 Pages

12 June 2020

This study aims to examine the determining factors of teachers’ continuance intention to integrate technology in a smart classroom of schools in underserved areas. Smart classrooms provide a supportive learning environment for students by equip...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue ICTs in Sustainable Education Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,255 Views
24 Pages

11 February 2026

This article describes a problem-based learning (PBL) intervention enhanced by a smart classroom environment, which supported online interactions and class activities. The academic experience was centered on the United Nations Sustainable Development...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creating an Innovative Learning Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,441 Views
24 Pages

17 September 2024

Detecting student behavior in smart classrooms is a critical area of research in educational technology that significantly enhances teaching quality and student engagement. This paper introduces an innovative approach using advanced computer vision a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Pattern Recognition & Computer Vision)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,521 Views
22 Pages

Smart Ventilation Systems for Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in School Classrooms: Review with Climate-Specific Insights

  • Sheikha Ahmed Al Niyadi,
  • Rua Ahmed Maali,
  • Manar Mustafa,
  • Maatouk Khoukhi and
  • Mohamed Elnabawi

9 June 2026

Maintaining good indoor air quality (IAQ) is essential for student health, cognitive performance, and overall well-being. Traditional ventilation strategies, particularly constant air volume systems and manual window operation, often fail to maintain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate-Adaptive Strategies for Sustainable Urban Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,176 Views
23 Pages

A Student Facial Expression Recognition Model Based on Multi-Scale and Deep Fine-Grained Feature Attention Enhancement

  • Zhaoyu Shou,
  • Yi Huang,
  • Dongxu Li,
  • Cheng Feng and ,
  • Huibing Zhang,
  • Yuming Lin and
  • Guangxiang Wu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 October 2024

In smart classroom environments, accurately recognizing students’ facial expressions is crucial for teachers to efficiently assess students’ learning states, timely adjust teaching strategies, and enhance teaching quality and effectiveness. In this p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Image/Video Processing and Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,454 Views
22 Pages

Classroom Expression Recognition Based on Deep Learning

  • Yang Gao,
  • Linyan Zhou and
  • Jialiang He

28 December 2024

In the field of education, classroom expression recognition technology has important application value. It can help teachers understand students’ emotions and learning attitudes and adjust teaching strategies in time to improve learning outcome...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Techniques, Platforms and Applications of E-Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
839 Views
42 Pages

7 September 2026

Environmental conditions such as inadequate lighting, excessive noise, and poor indoor air quality can negatively affect students’ health, comfort, and academic performance. Although recent Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have enabled low...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,403 Views
25 Pages

Although there is a large amount of scientific literature on the impact of colour on learning, there is considerably less research on the impact of coloured lighting on learning. Numerous studies have explored this traditional approach, but their res...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,282 Views
21 Pages

Enhancing the Teaching and Learning Process Using Video Streaming Servers and Forecasting Techniques

  • Raza Hasan,
  • Sellappan Palaniappan,
  • Salman Mahmood,
  • Babar Shah and ,
  • Ali Abbas and
  • Kamal Uddin Sarker
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 April 2019

Higher educational institutes (HEI) are adopting ubiquitous and smart equipment such as mobile devices or digital gadgets to deliver educational content in a more effective manner than the traditional approaches. In present works, a lot of smart clas...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,948 Views
22 Pages

Improving YOLOv7 for Large Target Classroom Behavior Recognition of Teachers in Smart Classroom Scenarios

  • Long Ma,
  • Tao Zhou,
  • Baohua Yu,
  • Zhigang Li and ,
  • Rencheng Fang and
  • Xinqi Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 September 2024

Deep learning technology has recently become increasingly prevalent in the field of education due to the rapid growth of artificial intelligence. Teachers’ teaching behavior is a crucial component of classroom teaching activities, and identifyi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,577 Views
28 Pages

19 February 2026

With the advancement of smart education and carbon neutrality goals, optimizing Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) while minimizing energy consumption is critical. Traditional PID or rule-based strategies struggle with the strong non-linearity and ti...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,770 Views
24 Pages

12 May 2023

Modern education has undergone tremendous progress, and a large number of advanced devices and technologies have been introduced into the teaching process. We explore the application of artificial intelligence to education, using AI devices for class...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,029 Views
19 Pages

Smart Learning by Design: A Framework for IoT-Driven Adaptive Classrooms and Inclusive Education

  • Sara Jayousi,
  • Paolo Lucattini,
  • Livia Petti,
  • Filippo Bruni and
  • Lorenzo Mucchi

9 October 2025

This research presents a novel conceptual framework for inclusive education by integrating Internet of Things (IoT)-driven real-time environmental and behavioral monitoring with adaptive teaching strategies. Unlike traditional methods, our model leve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,487 Views
28 Pages

This study develops and applies a climate-based, user-centred and data-informed framework to assess lighting performance in educational buildings through the integrated use of daylight, high-efficiency LED systems and smart lighting controls. The res...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Built Environments and Cities: Innovations in Energy, Materials, and Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,456 Views
31 Pages

3SqAir Project: A Living Lab Towards Sustainable Smart Strategy for Indoor Climate Quality Assurance in Classrooms

  • James Ogundiran,
  • Jean-Paul Kapuya Bulaba Nyembwe,
  • John Omomoluwa Ogundiran,
  • Ruben Alexandre de Souto Santos and ,
  • Luísa Dias Pereira and
  • Manuel Gameiro da Silva
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The indoor climate quality in classrooms at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, was investigated as part of the 3SqAir project, supported by the Interreg SUDOE program. This research focused on two equipped classrooms with different ventilation syst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling of Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort)
  • Article
  • Open Access
304 Views
32 Pages

1 October 2026

Detecting student classroom behaviors from ordinary classroom videos is complicated by weak features for small targets such as rear-row mobile phones, feature loss caused by inter-student occlusion, imbalance between frequent learning behaviors and r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,274 Views
33 Pages

26 March 2025

Numerous studies have explored the role of colour in classroom environments and its effects on learning, cognition and motivation. However, research on coloured lighting remains limited, with most studies focusing only on correlated colour temperatur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,973 Views
29 Pages

18 April 2025

Adaptation through Artificial Intelligence (AI) creates individual-centered feedback strategies to reduce academic achievement disparities among students. The study evaluates the effectiveness of AI-driven adaptive feedback in mitigating these gaps b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Smart Learning in Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
15,543 Views
15 Pages

An Internet of Things Example: Classrooms Access Control over Near Field Communication

  • Daniel Palma,
  • Juan Enrique Agudo,
  • Héctor Sánchez and
  • Miguel Macías Macías

21 April 2014

The Internet of Things is one of the ideas that has become increasingly relevant in recent years. It involves connecting things to the Internet in order to retrieve information from them at any time and from anywhere. In the Internet of Things, senso...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,072 Views
22 Pages

SmaEPho–Smart Photometry in Education 4.0

  • Lena Geuer,
  • Frederik Lauer,
  • Jochen Kuhn,
  • Norbert Wehn and
  • Roland Ulber

28 January 2023

Digitization offers new perspectives for educational research to identify the effects of visualizations regarding cognitive processing. In addition, new types of data can be generated, expanding the possibilities for visualizing cognitive processes a...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)

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