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General Problem Statement Ability to give customized information to a user based on the user’s current location, the current time and device being used.

Potential Scenarios Campus (our focus to solving the prev general statement will be on this): –Classrooms –Offices Mall –Stores –Offices Directory and Map services

Ideal Setup Device (talk minimally) –Graphical and Textual Display, Input/output capacity, transmision and reception of data via an standardized protocol –Ability to transmit its ID if asked to do so (some security cards can generate and transmit an ID when exposed to an EM field) this would be a HW ID not able to be turned off –Ability to give info on its user based on its setup (multiple users may use the same device at different times and users may use different devices both simultaneously and at different times)

Ideal Setup Rooms (be elaborate) –Use of transmitters and sensors (transensors) able to communicate wirelessly with the MOBILE HARDWARE and with the local SERVER (computer) Local SERVER –Holds info about the room and possibly other rooms –Holds and sends messages for a particular device or User such as class enrollment class anouncements class presentations (links to ?)

Basic Requirements Ability to send messages and receive messages based on user, location and time A simulated environment that includes: –Local computers databases –Simulation of users moving from room to room –Message sending and receiving –Usage of sim env is based on concept of want to first see if db design can be done/implemented and hardware is currently not cheap and we want our stuff to work not JUST today, but 5 or 10 years from now also. Make use of Java to allow for easy migration of components to production.

Advanced Requirements Global stuff is mostly just routing and networking (to be discussed shortly) Test simulated environments in a real environment –this will be used to ‘prove’ the reliability of the underlying structures – db design in particular Testing an implemention something on PDA