ShoppingMate
The main objective of the ShoppingMate project is the conceptualisation, design, implementation and demonstration of a novel mobile application that will allow mobile consumers to:
describe in an intuitive semantic way the characteristics of an item(s) they want to purchase (e.g. an intelligent toy for a 7-year old girl that is small size and does not cost more than 30 Euros),
perform an intelligent search in a shopping area to locate shops that offer this category of product,
get, in an intuitive way and at as much detail as required, the matching products found,
formulate a shopping plan, and finally,
get directions to the selected shop(s) according to the plan.
ShoppingMate will research the state-of-the-art of all relevant Web 2.0 technologies, extend them as needed to achieve project objectives, and finally combine them in an end-to-end prototypical platform for mobile shopping support that will be much more powerful than anything else that comes close to this vision and is available today.
The project will design a flexible user interface that supports menu-driven, free text, and natural language based capture of user requests. It will provide to participating shop owners the flexibility to incrementally introduce new item categories to the system and control the level of detail provided for each item. A semantic representation of both the user requests and the items offered for sale through the system will facilitate efficient semantic searching and matching. Semantic data representation will be performed using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) which is a semantic markup language for publishing and sharing ontologies on the World Wide Web. The ShoppingMate platform will be designed with user privacy in mind and will not require that the participating consumers provide any personal information, or expose their identity, profile and shopping preferences in order to get serviced by participating stores.
GRABEL
GRABEL is an SME research initiative intended to investigate the joint use of reconfigurable antennas and beamforming algorithms for the purpose of improving the localization capabilities of Global Navigation Satellite systems (GNSS) receivers (including GPS and Galileo) in outdoor and light-indoor propagation environments.
Under good signal propagation conditions (e.g. outdoors with clear line-of-site), most current GNSS receivers are able to deliver reliable navigation with accuracies to within a few meters. However, signal propagation is often characterized by the absence of a strong Line Of Sight (LOS), many non LOS (NLOS, multipath) components, interference (unintentional or intentional), noise and other degradations of the already weak GNSS signal received from the satellite, such as may be encountered in urban and indoor environments. At the same time, the demand for accurate and reliable outdoor-indoor localization is increasing. The requirements for location aware services are becoming more demanding, while the user community is growing. GNSS receivers must be enhanced to meet the needs of ever more demanding applications with respect to rapid, reliable and accurate localization. GRABEL investigates and develops improved GNSS receiver techniques that make better use of the weak GNSS signals while mitigating the adverse effects of multipath signals, fading, shadowing and interference. The key idea in GRABEL is the use of jointly optimised reconfigurable antenna arrays and baseband beamforming algorithms to substantially improve the performance and reliability of GNSS receivers and wireless receivers more broadly. The use of jointly optimized reconfigurable antennas and beamforming enables GRABEL receivers to approach theoretical performance limits; offering robust, high performance localization in dynamically changing, general outdoor light-indoor environments. As such, GRABEL opens the door to a new generation of outdoor-indoor location aware services.
Plogos maps for the municipality of athens
http://www.cityofathens.gr/el/node/9893
Mobics developed a geographical information and navigation system using Ploigos’ maps for the users of www.cityofathens.gr, the official website of the municipality of Athens. The goal was to support services such as looking up addresses, routing from point to point, printing maps and the display of many points of interest, be they municipal spots or not.
Wireless network for the city of Petroupoli
Mobics Ltd provided and installed the equipment necessary for the city of petroupoli’s WiFi network. This project included installing wireless access points and the router through which internet access is granted.
Design of a velometric system for the Hellenic Association of Beach Racket.
The implemented system reads and records the ball speed in order to assign points to the teams playing beach racket. Using computer vision techniques, the basic goal was to accurately measure ball speed in each rally.
Design of educational material for the Institute for Local Government
Mobics developed eLearning material for the Institute of Local Administration (ITA) within the project "Digital government: education of local government employees in computer science and telecommunication technologies”.
Specifically, Mobics developed two modules for the ITA / KEDKE e-Learning Center (with a total duration of 50 hours) on the following topics:
Environmental Risk Management
This module aims at informing and training in information technologies and telecommunications which could help the local communities in the early detection of fire incidents and other environmental hazards, in monitoring and predicting their development and in effectively managing the available resources to avoid catastrophic consequences for the community’s citizens and their property.Intelligent Transport Services / Transportation in the Digital City
The training module for educating and informing local government employees in Intelligent Transport / Transportation in the Digital City. The objective is to have a holistic educational approach which does not simply refer to theoretical models of technologies used, but proposes specific practical and operational solutions based on leading edge technologies. The main goal is the immediate application of these technologies within the structure of municipalities and gaining the support of the Local Government employees. Thus, training is provided to the municipal divisions that have undertaken the operation and supervision of transportation in the municipality. In addition to solutions than can be immediately implemented, topics such as cooperative mobility, security, infomobility, ecological impact, electronic payments, etc. are discussed in depth.
School bus management system for the Arsakeia – Tositseia Schools
The Arsakeia – Tositseia schools have organized and been managing their school bus service by using Mobics’ application PLOIschool. The application offers easy management of all bus routes, and can be used to draw information about the times school busses arrive to their destination. Authorised users can view all routes on PLOIGOS maps, and query for information on any registered school bus route. The school bus management system allows the administrators to add new routes or update existing ones along with their specific information such as the stops, the students which take each bus and emergency contact details.