Smart campus is an inevitable trend in the development of digital campus construction. The internet of things and cloud computing are the key technologies in the construction of smart campus. The authors expound the concepts of smart campus and put forward overall architecture of smart campus based on the internet of things and cloud computing. They elaborate on the network foundation platform, service platform and the construction of intelligent application platform in detail. Finally, discuss the problems should be noticed in the smart campus construction.

Using the cloud computing can effectively solve the traditional data centre’s problems, such as lower utilization ratio of resources, excessive power consumption and difficulties in management. The design idea for the virtualization of data centre based on the cloud computing is described in detail. The solutions for the hardware construction and the software platform design are proposed. The security management of the data centre is briefly described.