When you have an indoor location based system you can do many new applications. Like this one from BMW. Locate your car in a parking garage.
They use a camera and micro-maps, but you could do a good job with the car connected and then using wifi spots and cellular cell-IDs. The GPS would not work inside the garage so you have to rely on something else. You will get the floor and approximate position.
Then you need a map of the building shown in your app. On that map the position of the car can be shown. The map needs to be provided and drawn. Then you can make other cool apps. Navigation indoor, or location based advertisement inside a mall or finding assets in a mine or ...
Your imagination is the limit!
The video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9KVYlczExU
BWM Micro Navigation and Indoor Location
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Current navigation systems don’t allow to reserve a parking space, or tell which highway lane will provide the most expedient means of getting from point A to point B. BMW’s latest innovation changes that. |
Called microNavigation, BMW’s system provides lane guidance, i.e., the most efficient route possible, down to the level of choosing the best lane to use. |
The navigation system then tells the driver where to park inside a parking garage. Once you’ve reached your parking spot, the system even remembers your location without satellite access, transmitting the data to your smartphone. The system uses micro-maps instead of GPS, and uses the car's forward facing camera to establish the driver's positioning and sensors determine the car's elevation. Read more at www.indoorlbs.com |
I start to like Delicious stacks. I have made 22 and plan on making many. It is a good way to share links in a certain category. You can follow stacks and be updated by your peers.
The delicious team is getting their act together now. It is just a few glitches left. Maybe they have more innovations to share later on?
Interactive billboards are very powerful. There are a couple of videos in this article showing examples of how billboards are used.
First the commuters or the visitors need to discover the billboard. Next the billboard needs to show something interesting. What if the billboard could predict the interests of the persons passing by? It would be beneficial for the persons interacting with the billboard and the marketers using it as an ads channel.
Is it intrusive as well? Yes, if the information is personal, but what if it is just better targeted to the crowd close to the billboard. When there is football fans passing by it should show sports equipment. If it is mostly young adult commuters going home maybe dinner proposals are shown. For tourists it is interactive information about attractions.
Just a bit smarter surrounding would not hurt. Most advertisement is non relevant. Why not make it better in the networked society? Advertising billboards are just part of the background of modern, urban living. The challenge for marketers is to get us to notice something we are used to passing by without a second glance. |
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This is really interesting. It has passed unnoticed by the major telecom & mobile industry commentators, bloggers and a-like.
For the first time in the US mobile history, the growth comes from customers unaware of the network they are using. It is the start of connected devices passing phones as the major source of additions.
Next is when there is as many of them as phones. After that the time will come when other connected devices are 10 times the number of phones. In the Ericsson vision this will be around year 2020. other key lessons from Q2 |
- For the first time in the U.S. wireless history, non-operator branded wireless connections are the majority source of customer additions. Almost half of the increase of mobile connections came from customers that are mostly unaware of the network they were actually using. Amazon Kindles, Barnes & Noble Nooks, countless other connected devices, and MVNOs such as TracFone were driving the growth of the industry with more than 52 percent of net additions.
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This is about making fleets safer. They have integrated a GPS module with a radio device and reports position and other stuff.
This is very good, but for lower cost solutions or low power designs a GPS is not the first choice. How could all m2m devices with a cellular/WiFi radio module be managed and tracked?
The obvious solution is a high quality cell-ID look-up service. The server side could do the look-up and tracking based on reported cell-ID scanning done in the device.
See https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/mobile-location/ Fleet managers are turning to technology to help ensure the safety of their fleets. Cutting down on accidents and insurance claims is always a goal, and now systems exist that can alert drivers in realtime when they sense risky driving behavior. Read more at www.connectedworldmag.com |
Many many sites already use OpenID technologies. The benefits are manyfold.
1. It will accelerate the sign up process at the Websites. Your users dont have spend time answering many questions.
2. It will reduce frustration for your users associated with maintaining multiple Usernames and Passwords.
3. Your let your users gain greater control over their own online Identity.
4. It minimize Password security risks.
But, there is still missing a piece. One thing is that accessing web sites from a smart phone a login (username/password) is still needed. Why not use the fact that it is a phone. The GBA technology is available for mutual authentication.It will allow mobile users to access secured services in a much easier manner, simply by using their mobile phones.
Surprise! You may already have an OpenID.
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If you use any of the following services, you already have your own OpenID. Below are instructions on how to sign in with each of the following providers on an OpenID enabled website. (When you see bold text, you should replace it with your own username or screenname on that service.)
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This report needs some careful reading to find the news. The increase in app usage is clearly visible hear but is it quality time? Is it like on the web when we let the browser stay?
On minutes being on top of the screen apps accounts clearly for more minutes than web, but web was also at low face time before the smartphone. Not in Japan and a couple more places, though.
What apps is most used? Social networking is no news, but the add-on apps (pre-installed apps = functions) minutes were interesting and also that it created proportionally more data traffic.
Those that play games they do it a lot wasn't news. But that apps face time was close to messaging that is news. Needs some digging into user groups I guess. Youth in most places use SMS a lot...all the time I would say.
Finally the study support what I believe; that we are just seeing the beginning of the apps and web use on the phones. The study uses the concept of 'face time' to measure how long users actively engage with various smartphone features. It found that apps accounted for an average of 667 minutes of face time per user per month, only slightly less than the time spent on messaging (671 minutes), and well ahead of both voice calling (531 minutes) and web browsing (422 minutes). This means, for example, that smartphone users are spending 37 percent less time surfing the web using a mobile browser than using apps (see chart). |
Add-on apps accounted for 20 percent of face time minutes, but a slightly greater proportion of smartphone data traffic (30 percent). |
The study found, for example, that less than half (45 percent) of smartphone users play games on a monthly basis but these users spend 295 minutes per month on gaming. |
While apps are a hot topic in the industry, our study shows that this area is still at a relatively early stage of development, suggesting the full impact of the mobile apps revolution has yet to be felt. Read more at www.wirelessintelligence.com |
This is a good example how to use the phone as remote control. He is using the Bluetooth link to control the robot. Great fun!
What if we could control other devices using our android phone as the magic wand? There are a couple of other examples for that.
The phone is loaded with sensors and actuators, but there is no magic SDK to control PC applications. The application on the PC needs to monitor the sensors in the phone. Then we can create magic.
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Android controlled robot (via Bluetooth) – Part 1 |
This article points in an interesting direction. It takes you through most of the technologies of interest for putting the RAM in the cloud.
What do you do if you are going to make a collaboration tool on the web and need a memory for sharing? Examples of such applications could be groupware for e-learning, remote health care tele-presence with monitoring or web conferencing with shared whiteboards.
You need a shared RAM for a distributed in-memory database and the memory conflicts need to be resolved in the background.
In the end of the article o couple of key-points are made:
1. Keep simple things simple
2. Make it language independent
3. Separate data from code
An interesting project addressing the topic is the OpenCoweb project. http://dojofoundation.org/blog/2011/6/opencoweb/ Are Cloud Based Memory Architectures the Next Big Thing? |
We are on the edge of two potent technological changes: Clouds and Memory Based Architectures. This evolution will rip open a chasm where new players can enter and prosper. Google is the master of disk. You can't beat them at a game they perfected. Disk based databases like SimpleDB and BigTable are complicated beasts, typical last gasp products of any aging technology before a change. The next era is the age of Memory and Cloud which will allow for new players to succeed. The tipping point will be soon. |
| It's 2007: Move it all into the cloud.
It's 2008: Cloud + web scalable database.
It's 20??: Cloud + Memory Based Architectures |
Memory is the System of Record |
RAM = High Bandwidth and Low Latency |
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An interesting study, but still so limited that more questions arose than are answered.
New questions:
1. The messaging is not well developed in US and in many markets messaging is used for more then just person2person texting. What is included?
2. What about emailing? Is that messaging, apps or web? Blackberry emailing? Where are those minutes
3. What about other markets? Japan? Korea? Africa?
4. What about spend? How much are the users spending per minute in each category.
5. Then what about air minutes? Apps is a lot of device local only games.
6. What about different platforms. Any differences? Symbian vs. Android.
Adding the minutes together it says 76,4 minutes per day. Just above 1 hour usage a day?
Hmm, seems low to me? Where are all other minutes? GSMA published results from the US and UK based smartphone research study by Zokem at the Mobile World Congress which started today in Barcelona. |
News, search and commerce apps and sites receive much more usage still from mobile web browsers |
ultimedia related services, like online music and video, are predominantly used through native apps rather than a smartphone web browser. Read more at www.zokem.com |
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