This surgery explored how indoor positioning technology or location based services – a rapidly emerging mainstream mobile technology – can improve student experience and organisational efficiencies.
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iBeacons techniques
» Trilateration in theory can obtain exact location from 3 distances from
known locations.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Trilateration.png
» Tripwires – used to identify movement between key areas and provide
relevant proximity-aware content. Passed Lunchroom tripwire, highlight
lunchroom on map.
» Nearables – finding and gathering content about specific nearby objects,
e.g. printer, stationary cupboard, where is Nick?
6. iBeacons techniques
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3 4
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Printer CSH2A
1. Head to main entrance
2. Go through double doors
3. Turn right.The Executive
Room is on the right.
4. Arrived at Executive Room (
send text message to Skype
particpants)
7. Diagram from Wikipedia demonstrating principal of trilateration
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Trilateration
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Some potential USE CASES
» Indoor navigation (limitations may
exist)
» Estates & Buildings reporting /
ticketing
» Student recruitment events / open
days
» Conferences andeventnavigation
» Campus Augmented Reality
» Conference stand / poster
notifications
» Social location sharing (Ad hoc
study group, cancelled lecture )
» Smart Lecture Room (pick up
lecture notes)
» Campus Accessibility
» Study Desk / Group Study Pod
reservation
» Lab Log
» Quantified Scholar
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Submit a floorplan
Apple and Google both offering
“submit a floorplan” service, but
currently prioritizing big venues
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=pR7lFsNFEjg
(subtitles available)
10. Screenshots of demonstrator app
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Making floor plans accessible
11. Architectural floor plans not designed for way finding
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Making floor plans accessible
12. 2.5d or 3d projection of floor plan can make it easier to find way and
indicates that map has activated indoor mode.
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Making floor plans accessible
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Back to USE CASES
» Indoor navigation (limitations
may exist)
» Estates & Buildings reporting /
ticketing
» Student recruitment events /
open days
» Conferences and event
navigation
» Campus Augmented Reality
» Conference stand / poster
notifications
» Social location sharing (Ad hoc
study group, cancelled lecture )
» Smart Lecture Room (pick up
lecture notes)
» Campus Accessibility
» Study Desk / Group Study Pod
reservation
» Lab Log
» Quantified Scholar
14. Find out more…
Contact…
Except where otherwise noted, this
work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND
Ben Butchart
EDINA
b.butchart@ed.ac.uk
www.edina.ac.uk
Editor's Notes
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Bringing Location Indoors, Ben Butchart, EDINA
Indoor Positioning Technology is rapidly emerging as a mainstream mobile technology.
Apple recently incorporated Indoor Positioning into iOS8 and Apps using “nearables”, based on Apple’s iBeacon technology are gaining traction and media attention.
Goal for today is to share EDINAs experience experimenting with indoor technologies such as iBeacons and report on potential use case in higher, further education and skills sector.
Indoor Location relies on fusion of multiple sensors such as WIFI, GPS, motion sensors. Motion sensors such as accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometers provide dead reckoning ( count footsteps and direction), environmental sensors such as barometer (altitude), mobile cell. Dedicated infrastructure such as iBeacons can also be provided. Floor plan topology can assist in filtering noise in RF signals and interpreting users movements. Users themselves can be part of solution by crowd sourcing pathways through the building.
(wikipedia entry for iBeacons 20.02.2014)
An iBeacon deployment consists of one or more iBeacon devices that transmit their own unique identification number to the local area.
Software on a receiving device may then look up the iBeacon and perform various functions, such as notifying the user.
Receiving devices can also connect to the iBeacons to retrieve values from iBeacon's GATT (generic attribute profile) service.
iBeacons do not push notifications to receiving devices (other than their own identity).
However, mobile software can use signals received from iBeacons to trigger their own push notifications
Diagram explaining trilateration
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Trilateration.png
From http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateration
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Digram from Wikipedia demonstrating principal of trilateration
Some use cases
We will revisit these at the end of my talk and hopefully add a few or expand on them.
But can see very broad range of applications.
Now possible for venues such as shopping malls, airports and galleries to upload maps to Apple Maps and Google Maps and for developers to make use these maps. At the moment, Apple and Google are prioritizing large, public venues. As the link to the Google video shows, uploading a floor plan and making align with the map is not difficult, but not trivial either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR7lFsNFEjg
We experimented with iBeacons in our office.
The screenshots show how we integrated our office floor plan into Open Street Map and used iBeacons to highlight rooms.
Issues include
usability of standard floor plans
Technical issues;
Variability in signal strength due to obstacles
Variability across devices
Smoothing to correct variabilty causes delays
use weighted rolling average
Multiple beacons
4. Ranging only works in foreground.
The link below provides a nice summary from Thoughtworks team who ran a similar but slightly more thorough investigation
http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/semi-technical-lowdown-working-ibeacons
An intern helped us to design a more accessible version of the floor plan
Architectural floor plans are not especially easy for people to make sense of – especially on a small screen.
Venue maps often not geographically accurate.
Projecting the map from standard birds eye view to a zoomed in 2.5d view helps user to orientate themselves more easily.
Ok – you learnt something about indoor location.
Now it’s your turn to come up with some ideas for using them in your institution.