Project Background
Study Program
BSc. Communication and Information Engineering
Hochschule Rhein-Waal
Semester
Winter Semester 2014/15
Course
Interdisciplinary Project (Group Project)
Instructors
Prof. Dr.-Ing Christian Ressel
Introduction
After moving to the Kamp-Lintfort campus of Hochschule Rhein-Waal (HSRW) to the new address, it is discovered that people, especially the visitors, have more difficulties in finding the right room or the right contact person like a specific professor.
In order to show that this is a visitor-friendly university, Prof. Ressel of the Department of Communication and Environment has decided to initiate a project on an indoor navigation system for this campus.
In this project, a NFC-based navigation system is developed, in which a high number of NFC tags will be placed around the campus. The visitor can use an Android-based mobile phone, with which the room he or she is looking for is selected. By holding the phone near to a NFC tag, the current position of the visitor is known, and the system is able to find the shortest way for the visitor.
Main Responsibility
Server and Bluetooth
The main responsibility is to setup a web server providing web services for the Android application.
Other responsibilities included:
- merge all the Java Classes in this project into one
- configure the Bluetooth low energy devices used in this project
On top of these, I worked closely with the Android development, and assisted in the configuration of floor plans for implementing the way finding algorithm.