Enhancing Future Classroom Environments Based on Systems of Systems and the Internet of Anything

Currently, research centers, government, and industry have been developing technologies to enable novel capabilities for future classrooms. The Internet of Things (IoT), the Internet of Everything (IoE), and the Internet of Anything (IoA) are examples of technological paradigms that could transform current classrooms into collaborative classrooms. In this article, we investigate the design and simulation of a systems architecture that employs concepts related to System of Systems (SoS) and IoA to extend the capabilities of future classrooms. We design such architecture to be service oriented and to provide interactions between each established constituent system (CS), which is composed by the following elements: 1) local IoE modules; 2) CS negotiator agent; and 3) IoE/IoA agent. We consider a case study about interschool collaborations to improve learning in biology classes. Our results indicate that the usage of the IoA network improves on 52.02% the performance of the IoE network, it improves the recommendation of services by establishing a high competition between CSs, and quadruplicates the number of connections in this SoS network. These results suggest that such approach is effective to increase the collaboration between devices, people, or schools with different objectives and policies.