Internet of Things technology provides technical support for the construction of campus sensor network, cloud computing technology provides technical support for the construction of educational cloud platform, and mobile Internet technology provides technical support for the realization of ubiquitous learning. Internet of Things technology, cloud computing technology and mobile Internet technology are the technical background of smart education.

Cloud computing is to decompose the huge data calculation and processing program into countless small programs through the network "cloud", and then process and analyze these small programs through a system composed of multiple servers, and get the results and return them to users. Cloud computing is the result of mixed evolution and leap of distributed computing, utility computing, parallel computing, network storage, hot backup hybrid and virtualization.