Internet of Things for education: A smart and secure system for schools monitoring and alerting

The education system is one of the mechanisms and aspiration to build the society and contribute to human capital, well-being, and wealth. Security and privacy concerns in the educational organization is always significant due to various violent and terrorist activities. Technologies have been adopted for smart learning systems to improve the learning experience whereas security has been neglected inside or outside the institutions. The new integrated technologies have been adopted by using smart monitoring and sensing devices. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the Internet of Things (IoT) solutions specially designed for schools to provide smart and secure systems for educational settings. This paper also proposes a Secure system for the Internet of Schools Things (S-IoST) for smart schools based on a new advanced communication system integrated with 5 G cellular systems, sensing technologies, intelligent transportation systems, and IoT networks. The proposed system provides a more secure alert mechanism and facilitates the users at school and during mobility to the school or home. The proposed system evaluates in terms of data delivery, time, and response alert parameters.