Saturday, August 15, 2009

Using Smart Phones to Access Site Specific Services - a Mini Project

This is a mini project which has both code and documentation available.
This work investigates how smart phones can augment site specific services that are electronic services or application that resides in a specific location. Service provider runs MST server on Bluetooth enable PC’s or mobiles located in the store, restaurant, cinema and access them via their mobile service explores (MSE) enable smart phones. The service could push dynamic information updates to the phone via TEXT and MMS. This is to develop a push-based location aware advertising system using Bluetooth. This lets users receive advertisements on their smart phones based on their proximity to particular shops. At a minimum, we need is a single Bluetooth enabled PC to advertise a range of products.
Download Docmentation & code here