Eficode and AWS Help University of Turku Scale to Improve Sustainability

eSafetyFirst is a Romanian company that works exclusively serving Canadian businesses and job seekers. It provides online occupational health and safety training and certification in French and English hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Canada. The company wanted to ensure that it maintained excellent service as its business grew so it sought a local partner to work with. eSafetyFirst chose AWS Partner safeINIT to work on a transformation project for its training platform. But when initial plans to move core compute services to containers proved problematic, safeINIT quickly pivoted and built a new solution in response to changing needs.

The University of Bath in southwest England wanted to make better use of data to support decision making across the campus. It decided to build a system that used Wi-Fi and Internet of Things (IoT) data to better understand the occupancy of its teaching spaces. It wanted to make the data available in near real-time and in visual form to give it insights into estate management, building projects, and timetable strategy. The university turned to AWS Partner BJSS to help build the system on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The project proved that the university could accurately assess use of spaces in near real-time using anonymized, cleansed, and processed Wi-Fi data.

Western Sydney University is one of Australia’s leading educational institutions, ranked #1 in the world three times in a row in the Times Higher Impact ratings. The university collaborated with AWS Partner Eratos to create and deploy SIMPaCT, an AWS-supported solution that combines embedded smart technologies, a digital twin, and machine learning to manage irrigation and maximize cooling.

By working with Eratos and other partners to implement SIMPaCT in Sydney’s Bicentennial Park, Western Sydney University helped lower air and surface temperatures by 10 degrees Celsius, save an estimated AUD$2.3 million on health costs annually, and lower water consumption by more than 40 percent. 

Teesside University wanted to open a London campus to expand its UK recruitment and expand the delivery of its business, gaming, and animation courses. It wanted to create a modern, adaptable facility while reducing environmental impact and unnecessary expense on fixed IT infrastructure. To achieve this, the university worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partner CirrusHQ to build a cloud-based infrastructure that students could access without high-specification personal devices. Using AWS also meant that systems were ready to scale as student numbers grew, which was crucial when starting a brand-new campus and building student numbers from scratch. All of this was achieved with vastly reduced capital expenditure, because it removed the requirement to create large, fixed computer labs that would be unnecessary with early student cohort numbers, and would be inflexible as the needs of students, and the university, changed and developed over time.