The NTU Smart Campus is a living testbed of tomorrow’s technologies that demonstrates how innovative digital and tech-enabled solutions support better learning and living experiences, the discovery of new knowledge, and the sustainability of resources.
Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Home to a critical mass of talent and infrastructure in the key areas that are shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution. NTU Singapore is working with industries and the government to spearhead innovations for the betterment of society. These include:
• testing drones for smart utilisation of Singapore’s airspace,
• integrating automation and robotics to improve lives and industrial efficiencies
• the launch of the world’s first full size, autonomous electric bus. Involving cutting-edge science, technology and AI, the vehicle will play a significant role in shaping the future of public transportation.
A digitally connected community
NTU students benefit from a holistic curriculum incorporating the advantages of immersive technologies and learner-centred practices that go beyond the confines of a classroom. An NTU student is digitally savvy and prepared to take on global challenges brought about by industry 4.0.
By creating a digitally connected community, NTU is promoting maximum efficiency, fostering sustainability and improving the daily lives of its people for better learning and living experiences.
These efforts are also evident in the award winning HEY! magazine, a smart publication offering a range of options to share the NTU experience with its target audience. By adopting the latest technologies such as augmented reality and other mobile and online tools, HEY! provides a new way to experience the print medium.
Addressing humanity’s grand challenges
With smart technologies impacting traditional roles and structures, humanity is facing some of its greatest challenges. The NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity aims to bring industry, government and academia together to explore key issues at the intersections of technology and human behaviour and to mitigate any adverse effects.
“NTU’s large, beautiful and green campus makes it the ideal place to research, testbed and showcase new smart technologies, from applications for sustainable buildings and efficient energy utilisation to electric and autonomous vehicles to enriching and improving the way to learn, work and live.
The NTU campus is already a testbed for various sustainable and energy-efficient technologies with trials underway to implement cutting-edge technologies for transportation on campus. Under its EcoCampus initiative, NTU targets a 35 per cent reduction in energy, water and waste intensity by 2020, making it one of the world’s most eco-friendly university campuses in the world. Over 95 per cent of NTU buildings spread over a 200-hectare (500-acre) campus are now Green Mark Platinum certified (equivalent to LEED-Platinum certification in the USA), and the University is on track to achieving the target of 100 per cent by 2020.
NTU will accelerate research efforts in smart infrastructure to improve energy efficiency. Partnering global tech giant Siemens, NTU will develop various infrastructure solutions using advanced data analytics that can optimise the performance of green buildings and self-driving vehicles.
There are also plans to connect all data streams from the campus into a single central analytics platform known as the integrated Building Management System (iBMS), leading to more energy savings with improvements in productivity and operations.
In addition, an NTU virtual campus model is being developed that can perform computational simulations to identify real-time cost-saving opportunities and to evaluate benefits of a technology before actual implementation.