Smart campus cloud computing architecture: A secure and reliable solution

The new ideas of smart computing and pervasive computing have penetrated many theoretical spaces and given birth to new concepts under the umbrella of smart environment such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart campuses, smart cities, smarter earth, and so on, driven by the implementation of modern technologies such as cloud and the opportunities provided by these to the benefit of people. The Smart Campus is a novel concept in information technology development, combining Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things, and other emerging technologies. This research paper summarizes the findings of our study into the best options for the creation of a smart campus that also ensures data security, with a particular emphasis on data confidentiality. For the cloud security architecture, our solution offers five layers of protection; it provides a high degree of security as well as strong data secrecy - the necessary backbone for a genuinely smart campus development.