Cars as Tags

CAT – Cars As Tags

Dmitry Namiot Lomonosov Moscow State [email protected]

Manfred Sneps-Sneppe Ventspils University College [email protected]

Nets4Cars 2014

Network proximity in context-aware applications

• Network nodes as “navigation” beacons• How to reuse existing infrastructure• Dynamic beacons• Directly link data (information) to network nodes • The car is just a yet another wireless node

About

Contents

Introduction

Bluetooth Data Points

Data infrastructure

Business models

Conclusion

Introduction

• Wireless tags (e.g. BLE based iBeacon):

Wireless tags

We can estimate the distance and show some data depends on the nearby tags:

Wireless tags

• The tag transmits own identity data only

• The tag has no data “inside”

• Data (linked information) is some external entity for tags

• Data are linked to the tag (tags) identity

• The application can work with the pre-defined (for this application) tags only

Wireless Network Nodes as Tags

• Wi-Fi access point in broadcast mode• Bluetooth node in discovery mode• Both transmit identity (Name, MAC-address)• We have no data “inside” Wi-Fi access point

(Bluetooth node)• Nodes are moveable (e.g. Wi-Fi access point

right on the phone, Bluetooth node on the phone)• Node plays a role of wireless tag

Data for Network Nodes

• A set of productions: IF (network fingerprint) THEN ( data to be presented to mobile users /applications)

• A mobile application (context-aware browser) can check the current fingerprint against the existing set of rules and collect data chunks

• By the same manner we can present an API and obtain data programmatically

Car as Wireless Tag

• Car is Bluetooth (Wi-Fi) node

Data back-end

• The simplest rule: nodes visibility

• IF (Node is Visible) THEN (available data chunk)

• The node is described via MAC-address

• The MAC-address is a key for data chunks

• Key-Value store as a data model

• Apache Acumolo as data store

Our prototype

Our prototype

Conclusion• A a new approach for hyper-local data sharing and A a new approach for hyper-local data sharing and delivery on the base of discoverable Bluetooth nodes. delivery on the base of discoverable Bluetooth nodes. • Bluetooth Data Points (BDP) allow customers to Bluetooth Data Points (BDP) allow customers to associate user-defined data with wireless network associate user-defined data with wireless network nodes. nodes. • BDP is a distributed store of localized data. BDP is a distributed store of localized data. • A special mobile application (context-aware browser A special mobile application (context-aware browser or service in case of M2M) lets collect and present this or service in case of M2M) lets collect and present this to mobile users or other services in proximity. to mobile users or other services in proximity. • For moved network nodes, associated data will follow For moved network nodes, associated data will follow them too. It is a natural form of dynamic location based them too. It is a natural form of dynamic location based systemssystems

About us

International team: Russia - Latvia International team: Russia - Latvia ((Moscow – Moscow – Riga – VentspilsRiga – Ventspils). ). Big history of developing Big history of developing innovative telecom and software services, innovative telecom and software services, international contests awards international contests awards

Research areas are: Research areas are:

open API for telecom, open API for telecom, web access for telecom data, web access for telecom data, Smart Cities, Smart Cities, M2M applications, context-aware computingM2M applications, context-aware computing..

Software

Cars as Tags