3 Benefits of utilizing LoRa® gateways in Education

by Karanbir Singh Internet Marketing Manager

It has been a year since the pandemic locked us in. Together with this, industries and institutions have shifted into a virtual set-up wherein schools, work, businesses, and others have conducted their tasks online. This sudden shift is not ideal and it has left the world to adjust abruptly and iteratively. Nevertheless, the path towards online education, business, and the like was already a foreseen event and a road that would eventually be taken.

Educational systems have been evolving. A common change that you've heard is “blended learning”, wherein teachers conduct their lessons online by leaving tasks for their students. This is a simple step to incorporating technology in education, but it is still a move forward.

On the other hand, bigger innovations involving technology and education are also being done as we speak. This includes the creation of smart campuses. Now, through the utilization of LoRa® and LPWAN gateway, further advancements to the improvement of education can be made.

Take a look at the 3 benefits of incorporating LoRa® gateways and technology into the educational system:

1. Safety and Security

Utilizing LoRa gateway within schools can assist in ensuring security in the entire campus, especially in ideal places around the school such as their classroom, laboratories, and more. At the same time, LoRa® gateway offers a sensing system that can aid the school in their disaster risk management by easily navigating around their evacuation routes.

2. Health Monitoring

Through using IoT technologies like LoRa gateway, various healthcare use applications, like tracking of a student’s and their peers’ health can be observed through IoT monitoring systems. This can prevent the campus from diseases and the spread of it through early detection and treatment.

3. Enhanced learning

Interactive learning: Instead of relying on textbooks, learning can be taught through various mediums such as videos and interactive websites. Also, this includes being able to disseminate information to multiple devices.
Inclusive learning: This aids teacher in teaching students with disabilities, and it even assists the students in becoming independent.
Personalized learning: LoRa® gateways can satisfy various learning styles without compromising a student’s results. This advancement involves helping a teacher assess the best way to schedule their lesson plan and ideal environments in which a student is able to learn properly.
E-learning: Blending the virtual and physical learning environment to aid the broadening of educational reach

LoRa® technology is the bridge in connecting students to information, teachers to students, and students to reality. Having a deeper exposure and intensive educational system, students are able to understand and enjoy the beauty of learning.

Educating ourselves and gaining knowledge is a core to our living and it will never stop!

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