When I first began teaching at a college, I liked to eat at the cafeteria a couple days a week. There’s no better place to get to know your students than joining them where they spend every day their freshman year. Some of them you would see in line for the same chicken sandwich and fries they ate every day; some would grab an apple and get on their laptop to try to get their assignments finished before class. I was always jealous of their young metabolisms seeming to easily burn off that second trip to the ice cream bar.
A few weeks into that first semester, I noticed something I felt was odd. I saw the line for the cafeteria was spilling down the hall in the student center. I had never seen it that busy. I assumed they must be serving something special, so I immediately got in line. I was expecting steak, or an early Thanksgiving meal. I was certainly not expecting to find out they were serving grilled cheese. I was puzzled. Why would you wait in a line that long for grilled cheese?
Because it reminded them of home.
College students want their lives and their dorms to feel like home.
IoT devices make their dorms feel like home. Students want all their devices to work in their dorms. They want to connect all of them quickly, and they want to use them every day. A video call with their parents, an online video game with their friends, and their favorite movie on their smart tv help them feel like they never left.
To feel like home, students need to connect all their devices.
Students are using more devices in the residence halls and need the ability to stay connected. HPE Aruba Networking’s Wi-Fi infrastructure is designed to support campuses of any size with always-on secure connectivity to connect their IoT devices.
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