Location-based teaching

Client: Nicolas Graube, CSR <Nicolas.Graube@csr.com>

iBeacons/Bluetooth4 beacons are now being deployed in public, retail, and office spaces and offer the opportunity for micro-location applications (i.e. you are near X so execute Y). The CL has a large deployment of beacons that can provide phones location throughout. Your task is to create a platform that receives beacon sighting information from Android/iPhone devices and exposes it as location information that other can build location-aware applications on. You will then use this platform to create an educational system. It should be possible for anyone to use this platform to create new types of face-to-face interactive content that are advertised as available at particular times and location. Existing content could be imported automatically from sites such as talks.cam.ac.uk, lecture and seminar timetables, supervision management systems and so on, but users should be able to create new location-based content relevant to other learning or event types.