APriori is an innovative product rating system for mobile phones. It enables consumers not only to receive product recommendations from peer consumers on their mobile phone when actually shopping but also to create recommendations on the go, utilizing their mobile phone. APriori features the concept of dynamic rating criteria. This reflects the fact that we consider today’s product reviews not suitable for mobile phones and classical product ratings as not expressive enough. It extends current approaches for product rating and allows users to create their own rating criteria.
SwissPeaks and WorldPeaks are augmented reality applications for the iPhone 3GS to identify mountains. They can be used around town as well as hiking when you're looking at all the peaks around you and would want to know their names and height. SwissPeaks is a joint project together with Ernst Basler + Partner and works only in Switzerland. WorldPeaks is the international version that works everywhere using the GeoNames geographical database. SwissPeaks and WorldPeaks are also available as two layers for the Layar augmented reality browser for Android.
ThingBook is a Facebook application for creating repositories of things and sharing opinions with friends. It represents the link between things, people and social networks. It allows creation of thing repositories, where users adds all the things he is somehow related to and contains relations between user’s friends and things, and provides opinions on specific things that he might be interested in. ThingBook is also available as iPhone application.
TwiPhone is a prototype application for Android mobile phones which shares call logs and text messages on the Twitter online social network, thus connecting real life communications and virtual relationships. TwiPhone wants to create a new social network based on phone activities, thus increasing the awareness of buddies talking to each other and building a baseline for initiating new user-to-user links. Search Twitter for the hashtag #TwiPhone to see recent personal communications.
NFC-enabled mobile phones and NFC tags provide the possibility for development of mobile phone applications facilitating the NFC technology. Facility Manager has the goal to improve the quality of recurring maintenance tasks. Collected data like pressure values or correct position of the valves can be entered directly on the mobile phone. The Mobile Sales Assistant enables shop assistants to check the availability and stock information of products directly at the Point of Sale.
Building Radio Frequency IDentification for the Global Environment
BRIDGE is a European Union funded 3-year Integrated Project addressing ways to resolve the barriers to the implementation of RFID in Europe, based upon GS1 EPCglobal standards. The project consists of a series of business, technical development and horizontal activities. Seven Business work packages have been set up to identify the opportunities, establish the business cases and perform trials and implementations in various sectors including anti-counterfeiting, pharmaceuticals, textile, manufacturing, re-usable assets, products in service and retail non-food items.
Research results from SAP Research and strategic partners (Migros, Siemens, HP, Mettler Toledo, etc) were shown in three retail scenarios: Shop floor (customer facing), logistics and retail management/strategy. The demos aim to inform clients, academic and industry partners of the retail store of the future.
Current research shows that RFID technology, and the EPC-Network in particular, can provide effective measures in the areas of product counterfeits, brand protection, pedigree, grey markets and user/patient safety. This research activity aims at understanding and modeling the mechanisms of ilicit trade as first step. At a second step this activity designs both inferred and direct anti-counterfeit solutions based on the EPC-Infrastructure in the pharma, automotive, aviation and luxury goods industry.
This work package structures the risks of RFID and pervasive computing in general, their perception by the public and develops best practices for RFID-related risk management. Furthermore, it discusses the privacy issues of RFID from a business perspective, develops integrated privacy strategies and supports the implementation of fair information practices in RFID protocols.
Out-of-shelf situations in the retail industry result in significant loses of revenue. We develop low cost sensing systems that meet the requirements of the retail industry and analyzes the effect of those systems on replenishment practices.
After a trademark dispute, the EPC Prototyping Platform is now called "Fosstrak" (previously Accada). Fosstrak stands for "free and open source software for track and trace".
Felix von Reischach
Stephan Heuel
