Having your application know where your consumers are is only part of the problem. A well-defined location strategy around services is a must for truly integrated (and therefore invaluable) mobile solutions.
About James
James is an engineer who’s really into providing high quality, useful applications and services , using modern innovative technology such as NFC, BLE and other cool things. His background is low level programming and services but has been known to dabble in most mobile OS applications.
2. Proxama – Location Services
Setting the Scene
You can use Geo location tools for a mobile phone to know where it is
But sometimes this doesn’t work, either because its not accurate enough, or because
you have no signal inside, or its just too slow, or battery intensive (geofencing).
A lot of applications require ‘hyper local’, even more accurate then GPS. Basically I
want to know when you stand at a set of checkouts which checkout you went to.
Proxama use infrastructure to ‘tell’ a mobile device where it is, to give it a hint.
This is in the form of NFC tags, QR codes, or BLE beacons.
So I’m going to show a case study:
5. Proxama – Location Services
Its Simple! Lets just put a [NFC]
tag behind the harp, and then
you can tap the harp and cool
stuff will happen.
6. Proxama – Location Services
Devil is in the Detail
We already knew about
We had to learn about
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Lifecycle of a ‘Tag’
Security and Locking
Writing a lot of tags
Tag failure rates
Lifecycle of a Font
Lifespan of a Font
Where are the pubs
The relationship between
Diageo and the Pubs
7. Maintaining User Generated Content
There hasn’t been a Bakers Oven in Norwich for 3 years?
Does that matter?
There is a Bakery at this location, anyone searching for it will still get a sticky bun.
8. Proxama – Location Services
Font Manufacturer in
China
Desktop
Issuer (aka
‘Magic’)
Issuance
Partner
Installation Engineers
In the Pub!
Engineer
‘QA’ Tool
The
Guinness
App
TapPoint™