Business Information System: Analyzing IoT in the Education Sector

This report explores the integration of Business Information Systems (BIS) within the educational sector, focusing on the Internet of Things (IoT). It identifies and evaluates the characteristics and global significance of IoT in education, highlighting its role in enhancing personalized learning and classroom management. The report analyzes organizational opportunities, such as improved teacher recruitment, access to online study materials, and enhanced language instruction, alongside challenges posed by IoT implementation. Furthermore, it applies the value chain and virtual value chain models to assess how IoT creates and delivers value in educational businesses, emphasizing improvements in security, efficiency, and accessibility for disabled students. The analysis covers applications like one-to-one learning, security enhancements through technologies like 3D positioning and intelligent vision, and the use of educational applications that transform teaching and learning through interactive materials and games. The report concludes by underscoring the transformative potential of IoT in creating more effective, efficient, and accessible educational environments.

Business Information
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Identifying & evaluating the characteristics or significance globally of the Internet of Things.3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Analysing the organisational opportunities as well as the challenges which are posed by the
educational sector by Internet of Things.....................................................................................5
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................8
Applying the value chain or virtual value chain to evaluate how value is created as well as
delivered in the business by the Internet of Things.....................................................................8
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
The concept of business information system can be stated as a system that is utilized in
order to provide different organisational information so to have effective conduct of business
operations as well as in efficient way. The BIS adopts technology or the use of computer system
like software & hardware with the set procedures and data. The human resource is highly
responsible in context to have technological expertise fro developing & designing the
documentation system for the firm (Barata and Cunha, 2017). The present report includes a
discussion upon the educational sector which is adopting the business information system into its
practice so to provide education to the students as well as providing them a better learning
experience for their future. The report includes a discussion over the identification as well as the
evaluation of different characteristics along with a global level significance related to internet of
things in educational field. Also, the report includes a deep insight upon the evaluation of
business opportunities as well as the challenges that are posed to the educational sector through
the internet of things. The application of value chain as well as the virtual value chain is being
also considered in context to evaluate the creation & delivery of values within business through
internet of things. The internet of things is being stated as the physical objects that are embed
with sensors or processing ability with some software & different technologies. This helps in
connecting & exchange of data with different devices as well as systems over the communication
networks & internet. The educational sector adopts internet of things in respect to develop the
teaching as well as student learning so that a student can have career growth & development
could be happen in a professional way.
TASK 1
Identifying & evaluating the characteristics or significance globally of the Internet of Things
The concept of Internet of things is being considered as a network of different different
devices that are being attached with the support of software as well as electronics. This needs for
a proper network connectivity that focuses to modify & compile various forms of information.
The internet of things is being executed in different industries like travel with teaching &
telecommunication or many more. Discussing about the internet of things within the educational
sector, it is the major reason which the internet of things has enhanced the sector of education
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itself through providing higher value to the educational environment as well as learning
structure. In present time there is a presence of various smart schools that uses the internet of
things which facilitates the work smoothly so to encourage the higher level of personalized
learning. The smart devices that are being used within the campus generally is the Wi-Fi
networks so to receive different instructions & circulate the data. There is also a computational
internet of things system in many schools or colleges that supports & keeps proper track of their
main resources. This provides assistance in developing the smart learning plans through
designing the secure premises which aims at enhancing the information access as well as many
others. The Internet of things is the advanced technique that is regarded as a latest method of
managing classrooms. There are different characteristics as well as significance of internet of
things software's within the educational sector. One to one learning is one of the usage of internet
of things in the sector of education (Chen and et. al., 2017).
In present time the learning is not only limited to the combination of different texts or
images but is now more wider than this. There is a presence of different text books that are web
based application in respect to add additional as well as attractive materials with an aim of
encouraging students to learn with those animations & assessments with the videos or other
interactive materials in their process of learning. This has provided help to the students in having
the wider concept to attain knowledge on new concepts for deeper understanding as well as
developing effective communications with their friends & teachers. The internet of things
supports the students in making discussing for real world issues in their classroom sessions that
are being guided by the educational faculties so to find out the solutions of such problems.
Security is also an application within the education sector. There are numerous students who are
there in the class within the institution & monitors each & every activity that is not easy for them
to do. Students within an institution could become the culprit of numerous risks as well as needs
highly smart security as compared to the rest of the people & places of work. The internet of
things provides value to all these problems as well as develops the security of schools & colleges
along with other learning institutions as well. There is an existent of various technologies like 3D
positioning by which the students could be able to monitor the whole day. The presence of
students could be reported at any time. There are various alternatives that provides the distressed
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buttons that assists in implementing the technology's alarm when any situation of contingency
arises (Chettri and Bera, 2019).
In respect to monitor the behaviour of student then there is the intelligent vision by
camera that is being used within the campus. This is categorised as the computer vision
technology that has enhanced the every movement of their students by that the teachers could
monitor the students as well as their behaviour in automated manner that could support the
students to be away from any unexpected incidents that are happening. An educational
application is also a different application in respect to the internet of things within the
educational sector. There are various other educational applications that are transforming internet
of things & are recognized as the powerful development tools in respect to transform the
teaching as well as learning for the students. Such applications enables the teachers along with
the students to develop 3D based graphics text books that supports them for easy learning
through the assistance of videos & provides the capability to consider the notes also. Such
applications are categorized as the game changers as they furnishes a large amount of
educational games simultaneously. These games has different features that offers the interesting
possibilities within teaching as well as learning & this creates education highly potential even
than earlier. Increasing the efficiency is also a usage of internet of things in the sector of
education. There are numerous schools as well as colleges that spends a lot of time in having
various activities that provides no value for the students. Maintenance of students attendance is
one of the action that consumes a lot of time (Endres and et. al., 2019).
Hence, the internet of things provides greater assistance in the maintenance of attendance
directly in the central office as well as collects the data in automated manner with any human
intervention. There is a movement towards internet of things that supports the teachers in
conducting that task within a highly effective & efficient manner. This supports in maximizing
the concentration upon teaching by teachers that is the main function of each educational
institution.
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TASK 2
Analysing the organisational opportunities as well as the challenges which are posed by the
educational sector by Internet of Things
There is a presence of different business opportunities within the sector of education by
internet of things. For instance, different opportunities are available for teachers in a way that
recruitment of more and more teachers would enhance to the educational access that can lead to
the reduction in quality. The Internet of things provides an assistance provides assistance in
quick hiring of teachers which could not be completable to school districts. Educational
textbooks on the other hand acts as an opportunity within which the paper based textbooks
becomes costly and consumes huge time while reading. Sometimes, the books in physical form
also does not generates any interest to the students to read and learn. Therefore, the internet of
things furnishes a great opportunity to access the online study material with latest information as
well as with fresh knowledge to the students that can be beneficial for the development of their
professional skills through creativity & innovation. Different opportunity within the international
language instruction is the main aspect in educational sector to learn and under. This is so as it is
categorized as one of the highly strong mechanism in context to learn foreign language that are
known as the secret weapon in real-time feedback structure. In today's time the French language
is one of the highest preferable language that can make things easy for the students to acquire &
learn through internet on real time basis. Any student could face various problems while learning
different languages in manual form but through business information systems as well as internet
of things. A student can use this in institutions which offers opportunities to acquire the foreign
languages and contributes to the future development (Gobeo, Fowler and Buchanan, 2018).
The internet of things interconnects different devices in a way that can be helpful for the
students while formulating correct grammatical sentences as well as the right selection of foreign
language & environment. These connections furnishes the real time feedback to their students as
well as helps them in automatic monitoring of the learner's progress. Another positive given by
the internet of things is the connected smart classroom session. The future of classroom session
would be soon completely enabled with high technology. With the assistance of augmented
reality as well as virtual facts the replacement of education materials from manual towards the
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technical would be done in order to have up-gradation as well as the improvement within the
teaching experience as well as in educational sector. The Internet of things furnished different
opportunity to have the base for the technological classrooms that could be operated. It supports
the teachers & the students to attend their classes in automated manner by providing the
significant knowledge as well as studies for effective achievement of assignment objectives. This
on the other hand furnishes white boards as well as the smart microphones for effective
communication or interaction flow in between the students as well as teachers. These are some
scope of growth that can provide assistance to the educational sector to develop within the
coming time. The task based learnings brings several opportunities to the students as this
provides an extra manual learning which could not be in the students curriculum but only the
important schedule for a day is indulged. This supports students to acquire learning in highly
effective way without losing any learning material but remembering them every time. This
assists in attaining practical knowledge to the students & the experience for the teachers to offer
effective and valuable learnings to their students. This happens through the assistance of proper
feedback as well as the level of classroom which can be monitored automatically. The internet of
things simultaneously furnished the opportunity for disabled students to have learning & proper
study through internet of things devices. This supports students to be motivated and to develop
their future bright through internet of things (Huang and et. al., 2019).
Some of the more opportunities includes specific education along with physical education
& school security, classroom monitoring through video in a form of sensor technology. Also, the
monitoring of the attendance through automated system as well as student physical & mental
health are also comprised within the opportunity furnished by internet of things. Learning
directly from home as well as customized learning also bring a great opportunity which can be
attained by educational sector. There is a presence of different manner within which the
educational sector could be successfully integrated through internet of things. Like executing the
potential for develop future internet of things usage within the educational institution. This could
also be happen through executing the ethical code of conduct as well as proper implication of
internet of things via data collection. The procedure of utilizing internet of things into the
business solutions plays a very important role in payment of school or college fees so that a
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institute can hire more skilled teachers who can provide best knowledge to the teachers
(Komarova and et. al., 2019).
There are certain challenges in context to the internet of things within the educational
sector. Huge installation cost is one of the main technological challenge. Implementing the
solution for internet of things needs to be present in higher education that is cost significantly
while the execution of hardware & software applications. It is essential to use the standard
platform to interconnect the different devices as well as public offices with the collaborations of
school principals. All these things demands for a highly talented technical team for the
development of software as well as the data science with different fields of educational sector.
Moreover, there is a high cost involved in acquiring hardware licence with having its cost
of maintenance & other essentials that also enhances the expenses related to the internet of things
items & services. All such costs are generally tough for the schools as well as institutions to bear
this highly expensive innovation & design the personalized internet of things applications for
their institution. The ethics of class is also one of the critical challenge in respect to internet of
things within the educational sector. Traditional classroom teaching offers various options to
handle student's assignments & to enhance the knowledge to the greatest level. But the internet
of things is depended upon the technique that needs to be provided with certain mechanism that
supports students to conduct cheating & indulge in the activity of plagiarism with other kinds of
academic trust breach. This is as the internet of things furnishes the sharing of data system
through worldwide technology that can help in having effective communication between the
students & providing the framework to stand in against of any fraud or ensuring that every data
is tamper proof. Students sometimes use to misuse these advantages in the internet of things &
cheats during the learning phase as well as while preparing their assignments and in their
examinations. Insufficiency of data processing infrastructure is also a challenge in relation to the
internet of things for the educational sector. When the educational institutions executes the
internet of things application into their workings, the public office workers with the facility of
educational sector in which the managers expects the reliability of computing platform & the
data techniques. Security & privacy concerns is also a challenge within internet of things for
educational institutions. This is one of the highly essential as well as disastrous challenges that
can be faced by companies. This is due to the chances of data breach & security attacks or many
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others that impacts in highly negative manner upon the students learning or teaching (Popkova
and et. al., 2019).
Task 3
Applying the value chain or virtual value chain to evaluate how value is created as well as
delivered in the business by the Internet of Things
The concept of value chain analysis is denoted as a business model that states the
circulation of value narrating data services through extended enterprise. It assists the physical
procurement of value chain as well as manufacturing with the combination of distribution &
sales of traditional business houses. The value chain analysis within the educational sector is
recognized as the wider network of activities that are standard as well as depended upon the
activities of research & community service with teaching. This is generally includes the
educational structure as well as the educational delivery with the assessment & out reaching
activities of the students (Shim and et. al., 2017).
The value chain analysis is being executed within the educational sector to evaluate the
internal & the external climate. Internet of things is a technique that enables the actions
concerned to the services that are being offered by the whole process of value chain considered
within the business. Internet of things broadly helps value chain analysis within an educational
sector through providing effective connections & collaborating the future time for the education
of students. Value chain analysis is being executed with the assistance of internet of things
through serving the students with effective access of everything right from the learning materials
to the channels of communication (Srinivasan and et. al., 2019).
CONCLUSION
This is being concluded from the above discussion that the concept of business
information system within the educational sector is an essential concept to acquire learning as
well as study so that its usage could be executed in real world companies. This is as the students
are being considered as the future of country & therefore it is essential to have immense care of
their career & studies so that they could be able to grow professionally & individually in well
manner. Personal as well as the professional development for the students is significant & that is
because this information system within the educational sector plays a great role. The above
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presented information is all related the determination as well as evaluation of the features &
significance at global level in respect to internet of things. This provides assistance in
determining the organisational opportunities as well as challenges that are posed to the
educational sector by internet of things. Also, the above presented information presents the
different usage of value chain as well as virtual value chain to evaluate how the value is being
created & delivered within the educational sector through internet of things. Hence, this report
discusses all those areas which helps to have better understanding of the creation of business
information systems.
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