NJIT's SmartCampus project to create closer connections

A research project, called SmartCampus, will allow New Jersey Institute of Technology students to instantly locate their friends at the school, identify other students who share their interests and obtain information about the number of people using the library, the cafeteria, the computer labs and other places on campus. Physorg reports.

"We'll use mobile tracers to detect the places where students like to gather and use those places to identify students' interests and patterns," said Quentin Jones, PhD, an assistant professor of information systems at NJIT. "SmartCampus is a unique social computing research project that uses technology to unite an urban environment – in this case the NJIT campus – into a community."

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