Swedish "Wireless Valley" Deploys City-Wide Context-Aware Wireless Platform - Kista Mobile Showcase
Kista Science City AB, (Kista), and Appear Networks, (Appear), announced the launch of an interactive city-wide context-aware wireless showcase located in Kista Science City, fifteen minutes outside of Stockholm. Appear supplies the underlying context-aware application provisioning server.
The Kista Mobile Showcase promotes mobile applications, solutions and services found in the Swedish high tech region, home to over 700 companies and more than 27,000 employees. The wireless deployment consists of 110 Wi-Fi access points distributed through out Kista Science City points of interest, including the Kista Gallerian (a shopping mall with adjoining subway station), IT University Campus, research buildings of Electrum and Wireless@KTH, and Kista Science Tower.
The showcase features an interactive tour which enables visitors to personally experience next generation mobile solutions and applications while discovering Kista Science City. Showcase visitors are provided a Wi-Fi enabled handheld device and the user's location is recognized and dynamically updated upon entering various Wi-Fi enabled zones located through out Kista, achieving indoor location detection accuracy not possible with GPS. Personalized location-based services automatically appear and disappear from the visitor's mobile device, according to his precise location. For example, as the user approaches the bank, stock quotes appear on his mobile device. Walking by the lunch court triggers a list of menus available from nearby restaurants. Upon entering the subway station an updated timetable becomes available.
Source: press release
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