imity did bluebunny (http://bluebunny.imity.com/) for the roskilde festival this past summer. it tracked users and recommended them other concerts based on the ones they stayed at (vs. the ones that strayed away after a few minutes). the same setup was used at reboot (http://reboot.dk) last year or the year before.
imity has just been acquired and i think there is a good chance that at least a good portion of the work could be put open source. /n ps. a phone can be used as scanner but beware that the scan cycles will be long. the setup imity used was openwrt-enabled access points with usb ports On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Andrew Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:50 PM, evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been throwing around the idea of having a kind of conference > > tracking application. Use the fact that at tech conferences most of > > the attendees have bluetooth devices which broadcast an id. It'd be > > great to mine the data anonymously, who stayed for the whole time, who > > left early, people who attended x session also went to y and z. Kind > > of like an audience version of what Schuyler presented at FOSS4G in > > Victoria, but of the people not the session descriptions. > > > > Then with that data you could do some hallway visualizations, show > > which rooms are crowded, which are empty... I think it could be really > > interesting. > > I've thought about doing something like this as well. At FooCamp this > summer there was a bluetooth phone hooked up to a speaker that played > goose honking sounds when multiple people with BT phones walked by. > Cute ambient aural setup. > > So I think your one idea of using existing phones may be a good > option. It would be straight-forward to poll the BT and even > potentially use WiFi of a phone like the N95 so that it wouldn't > require SIM cards. Use PyS60 or ProcessingMobile. > > Personally, I like the arduino idea better. There are BT shields, or > even just hook up a SMiRF modem > (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=158) > and then use one of the Ethernet (XPort) or Wifi modules: > > http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=17_21&zenid=2eb10c369a9e8ae9241d555dc052497a > > Or even XBee for meshing of these systems. > (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8471) > > Each station would probably run about $100-$150 going the arduino > route - but then it's not someone's $$ N95. > > I would highly recommend getting the "Making Things Talk" book - it > goes over all this kind of stuff to get up and running quickly. > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
