smart cities software: customized messages for mobile subscribers
DESCRIPTION
This paper introduces a new way of delivering local messages to mobile subscribers. Our application presents a mashup from passive monitoring for smart phones and cloud-based messaging for mobile operational systems. Passive monitoring can detect the presence of mobile phones without active participation from the users. It does not require prior calibration, nor does it require mobile users to mark their own location on social networks (like traditional check-ins). Mobile users do not need to run location track applications on their phones the. At the same time, a production-based expert system built around cloud messaging allows interested parties to directly deliver their custom information to mobile users in proximity.TRANSCRIPT
Smart Cities Software: Customized Messages for
Mobile Subscribers
Manfred Sneps-Sneppe Ventspils University [email protected]
Dmitry Namiot Lomonosov Moscow State [email protected]
WIFLEX 2013
• A new model for local area messaging based on the network proximity.
• Our mobile mashup combines Wi-Fi proximity measurements with Cloud Messaging.
• Passive Wi-Fi monitoring can determine the location of mobile subscribers (mobile phones) without the active participation of mobile users.
• Cloud Messaging delivers notifications to local subscribers
About
Contents
Introduction
Passive Wi-Fi monitoring
Cloud Messaging
Local area messaging mashup
Conclusion
Passive Wi-Fi monitoring
• Wi-Fi probe request• Client (even not
connected) can send requests to AP
• AP can analyze requests
• We can collect MAC-addresses for clients
Advantages and disadvantagesfor passive monitoring
• It does not require special mobile applications • For mobile users it works automatically and transparently• It is anonymous monitoring. MAC address is used for re-identification only. It could be replaced with some hash-code (privacy)• It is not 100% reliable. There is no warranty that Wi-Fi client will send probe request. Our own experiments and references show 70%-80% detection rate.
Passive monitoring examplesNavizon
Passive monitoring examples.Cisco MSE
Cisco Meraki
Passive monitoring examples.Libelium
Examples: visits per hour
Examples: devices
Cloud Messaging
• Cloud infrastructure from vendor
• Google, Apple, Microsoft, Nokia – own cloud based infrastructures for notifications
• Google message: 4 Kb payload delivery
Google Cloud Messages
Key moments for Cloud Messaging
• Application registers with Cloud Messaging• Application provides a key from Cloud
Messaging server (subscribes) to the particular application (Sender)
• Sender saves keys and uses them later for delivering notifications
• Key moment – subscription is activated from the mobile application on the particular phone.
Key moments for mashup
• Let us extend the subscription process• Mobile application (mobile phone, actually)
will provide a key for notification and MAC-address for identification
• Sender can compare saved MAC-addresses with the MAC-addresses, collected by the passive monitoring
• Key idea: get subscribers who are nearby at this moment
Key moments for mashup - 2
• Sender can deliver notifications to those, who are nearby only.
• It is real-time detection
• MAC-address is used for the re-identification only. So, it could be replaced with some hash-code (privacy)
Use cases
• Proximity marketing
• Deliver local area messages in retail
• Hyper-local news delivery in campuses. Tested in Lomonosov Moscow State University
• Smart Cities information delivery
Proximity <> Location• Proximity here is the network proximity. • The location for nodes could be unknown• The location for Wi-Fi access points could be changed. E.g., hot spot right on the mobile phone• Proximity based data could be more precise (especially for indoor)• In other words: the proposed approach could not be replaced one by one with some geo-fence with pushnotifications. Proximity is not equal to location.
Conclusion• A new mashup based on passive Wi-Fi monitoring for A new mashup based on passive Wi-Fi monitoring for mobile devices and cloud based notifications. mobile devices and cloud based notifications. • Passive monitoring uses probe requests from Wi-Fi Passive monitoring uses probe requests from Wi-Fi specifications for detecting nearby clients. specifications for detecting nearby clients. • Notification module uses cloud messaging (push Notification module uses cloud messaging (push notifications) from mobile operational systems. notifications) from mobile operational systems. • This application does not publish location info in the This application does not publish location info in the social network (it is not a check-in). social network (it is not a check-in). • Custom messages will target online subscribers in Custom messages will target online subscribers in the nearby area only.the nearby area only.
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..