Sensate Benches – A Modern Approach to Education

The current Smart Education System includes the whiteboard screens which is an electronic visual display enabled by touchscreen technologies thus being used universally. The field of Internet of Things (IoT) including a plethora of technologies is being explored to improve the education industry. To make education more effective and interactive, it becomes necessary to create new avenues for a smarter classroom. Since screen sharing systems are becoming increasingly prevalent in today's technologically advancing world, we propose a smart system which integrates technology and education. The idea is to create a sensor-based system that would be implemented on the classroom bench surface to help facilitate interactive learning, collaboration, automatic calibration, multi-touch and gesture detection. The proposed system can support various Operating Systems viz. Windows, Mac OS, Ubuntu, etc. By integrating these features in the proposed `Sensate Benches', we may help improve the quality of smart learning.