2. Company Snapshot Large Mobile Workforce (500+) Blue Collars (Task Workers) Vertical Applications (Transport, Public Sector, Retail, Hospitality) Customer Focus Vertical Go to Market with SITA (Air Transport), Transeo Alliance and Thales (Rail/Metro Transport) Strategic Partners Consumer Context-Aware Services driven by the next generation of smart mobile devices (MID, iPhone, Google Android) What’s Next Product Context-Aware Wireless Software Powering Mobile Field Force Applications (Maintenance, Security, Operations)
3. How smoothly will your operations run today? 08 05 : The turnaround coordinator has just noticed that the fuel operator has not started refueling the aircraft He tries to contact the service provider on radio, but nobody answers the call … he could check if a fuel truck and a driver have been allocated to its flight, and locate fuel trucks on an airport map? What if…
4. How smoothly will your operations run today? A Person with Reduced Mobility (PRM) urgently needs agent support to go to the gate and board the plane… … but no escort personnel is showing up! … the Airport Command Center could locate the nearest agent and assign him the task to escort the PRM? 08 12 : What if…
5. How smoothly will your operations run today? A group of passengers on a short connection has not shown up for boarding Baggage handlers are trying to find on the paper loadsheet to quickly offload their luggage … Baggage Handlers could retrieve from their PDA, the list and details of group baggage? 08 20 : What if…
6. How smoothly will your operations run today? As the captain is running the Weight & Balance calculation on his Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) he is told that a number of baggage need to be offloaded… … but he can’t get the latest data on his EFB and has to switch to manual calculations … the latest data could be sent to the pilot’s EFB to keep all the flight information up-to-date in real-time? 08 25 : What if…
7. How smoothly will your operations run today? Incorrect oil pressure is reported on an engine. A mechanic needs to be dispatched to look at the problem The Line Maintenance department Dispatch coordinator checks his paper work schedule and informs the captain that the next available mechanic should arrive in 30 min … this case could be assigned immediately to the nearest available qualified mechanic and all the necessary documentations automatically loaded on his tablet PC? 08 30 : What if…
13. Appear IQ – Multipurpose Mobile Platform Back End Baggage Handling Facility Management Cargo Handling Pax Handling VideoSurveillance … Front-End Mobile Capture Mobile Manager Mobile Alert Context-Aware Client Context-Aware Server Middleware Appear Push Appear Sync Appear Dev Mgt Appear Notification Context Engine Context-Aware Proxy
16. Technology Innovation Statistics Events Billing Context Aware Response (smarter and more pertinent behavior) Explicit Input (from User) Geographic Location Device Type Locale Time & Date Access Rights (roles) Available Bandwidth Process Status The Right Information to the Right Place at the Right Time Implicit Input (Context)
29. Leading the Context Revolution [email_address] www.appearnetworks.com
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Too much information kills information! Real mobile users (PDAs, not laptops) needs to have relevant (ie filtered) information pushed to them rather than actively searching for it.
Gartner: CoDA is an architectural style of business software that builds on SOA and event-driven architecture (EDA) interaction and partitioning styles, and adds formal mechanisms for the software elements (services) to discover and apply their context in real time. CoDA implements context-aware computing via a formal architectural model and design mechanisms. The mechanisms may include context brokers, state monitors and context analysis agents — using data formats, metadata schemas, interaction and discovery protocols, programming interfaces and other formalities. The relevant context may characterize this or another user, enterprise, business process, transaction, service, or another scope such as geography, social context or time
Large numbers of data devices (not only voice) add a layer of complexity. How to manage and troubleshoot these devices? What can go wrong?
Connecting a large number of dissimilar back-end systems with multiple types of mobile devices require some « glue » also called mobile middleware.
Generic Functions are software related functions who are needed to support several applications. For ex: data sync, device management, or pinpoint positioning It just makes no economic sense to rebuild these layers for each application
