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OFFIS

• Research and development Institute for
  informatics
• Non profit research institute on computer science
• About 200 employees, turnover 10.4 M (2006),
  public basic funding by State of Lower Saxony,
  additional third party funding (80 in 2006)
• Working in six RD divisions, one of them
  Multimedia and Internet Information Services
• People behind LOCCATA
• Dirk Ahlers - Scientist
• Daniel Wichmann - Scientist
• Jochen Meyer Director of RD division MI
• Prof. Dr. Susanne Boll scientific leader

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OFFIS Expectations

• Background Long term research in mobile
  applications
• Niccimon cooperation with other research
  institues
• Developed a mobile platform for rapid prototyping
  and various experimental applications
• Expectations
• Drive forward the resarch on mobile applications
  and location based services
• Transfer the research results to a real-life
  application
• Lay the ground for further mobile applications
• Gain publicity in Europe with an attractive
  Galileo project

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LOCCATA Interactive mobile usage requirements

• Manage Routes, POIs, Content Objects
• enable reuse of existing content
• support contexts
• content has to be assigned to different contexts
• contexts have to be extensible
• provide data for the SmartGuide
• Enable the use of heterogenous mobile terminals
• with mobile technology evolving quickly, three
  stages of development are taken into account

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LOCCATA general technical concept

• The LOCCATA system is built according to a
  multi-tier structure

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Mobile Usage (Stage 1) t-guide

• Existing solution for a standard mobile phone
  without any special hardware (e.g. GPS or a
  GALILEO receiver) or system needs.
• By publishing telephone numbers in important
  places the location-based information can be
  accessed by a user at that location by simply
  dialing that number.

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Mobile Usage (Stage 2) MontaPhone

• Specific Java-based application for mobile phones
  with access to a GNSS positioning device
• Improved, location-based user interface to the
  audio information of the t-guide
• No network access needed, just a voice call to
  the t-guide server

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Mobile Usage (Stage 3) SmartGuide

• Fully-fledged, PDA-based solution
• internal or external GNSS positioning receiver
• Starting with GPS
• Later switching to Galileo
• Software building blocks
• Integration of content from the L-CMS
• Presentation of information according to users
  (GNSS-determined) location
• The SmartGuide is the central result of the
  LOCCATA project

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LOCCATA Access

• Package to go
• Full package of all contents for deployment on
  the mobile device
• Web
• Presentation of the content on a (e.g. tourist)
  web site
• Phone
• Access to audio content

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L-CMS - LOCCATA Content Management System

• Three types of content objects
• Media Items
• e.g. texts, audios and pictures
• Points of Interest
• individual geographical points that are of
  interest and are associated with several media
  objects
• Hiking tours
• Consisting of POIs, route details, route
  description
• L-CMS developed based on Plone OpenSource CMS

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Status at the end of the project

• Final Demonstrator of software system up and
  running
• Developed according to requirements
• Technically operational
• First user-tests finished successfully
• Comprehensive Demonstration and Dissemination
  activities
• representatives of local and regional authorities
  and tourist organisations regularly participated
  in interim and final demonstration meeting
• Good media coverage
• Radio interviews in Germany
• Report in regional Vorarlberg TV
• Internet TV report
• Individual promotion by project partners
• High interest in Loccata results by tourist
  experts

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General Exploitation Plan

• Generic Plan Service oriented
• Give away the software for low-cost or even free
  of charge
• Option Put everything into OpenSource
• Needs to be checked to ensure that all partners
  intersts are considered
• Charge for adaption to users demands and for
  consulation
• Key Partners Telesis, LovelySystems, OFFIS
• General agreement collaborate on further
  exploitation
• Telesis Consultancy, Product Launch
• LovelySystem Adaption and hosting of L-CMS
• OFFIS Adaption of mobile applications
  Integration of Galileo
• Details need to be discussed as exploitation
  evolves over time

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OFFIS Exploitation Plan

• SmartGuide L-CMS can be used in other
  application areas
• Mobile platform as basis for flexible application
  development
• L-CMS as convenient way to handle content
  integration
• OFFIS has made some contacts already
• Schlossmuseum Jever (Castle Museum of the city
  of Jever)
• guide through the castles garden gt cultural
  heritage
• EWE (regional energy supplier in north-western
  Germany)
• guide through the region gt regional marketing
• RIS Weser-Ems (Regional Innovation Strategy)
• Demonstration for North Sea tourism gt tourism
• Contacts are still small-scale and/or early
  stage, but developing
• Ongoing presentations
• e.g. at Heidelberg Innovation Forum Wednesday!

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OFFIS Future Activities

• Longer-term perspective Loccata spin-off
• Based of OFFIS Guidelines for Spin-Offs
• Excellent possibilites in the environment of a
  transfer-oriented research institute
• Consolidating the activities within OFFIS
  projects first

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