References.
Projects I was involved in at Fraunhofer ISST:
Projects I was involved in at the University of Dortmund Projects I was involved in at GeoMobile GmbH:
MONA. Mobiler Notfall-Assistent.
MONA is a research project that was carried out at Fraunhofer ISST. The result of the research activity was a web application based on ontologies. This application assisted firemen during their missions and provided them with instructions, advises and vital important information. The core of MONA is ontology rules, which facilitate to retrieve context specific information units. For example, depending on current location and weather conditions, the firemen got different instruction on how to act in two similar situation. 
COMPASS 2008. COMprehensive Public informAtion Services System for the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing.
COMPASS is a two-year project that was supported by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
(Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung) and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).
Several major German IT-partners such as Fraunhofer ISST, DFKI and T-Systems in cooperation with
chinese research institutes ICT and CapInfo aimed to develop a digital assistant that would be
of a great help for foreign tourists visiting Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing.
The task of Fraunhofer ISST was to work out the concept and to implement a context-aware software platform for hosting of various services. The context is users's current location, time, user's profile. Assuming, you are going through the capital of China at day time. Your PDA or Smartphone "supposes" that you could be already hungry. So in the list of currently available services you can find a "restaurant guide" service. This service could offer you a nice place to have a supper based on you profile data, e.g. taste, prefferences etc. Morover it could offer you instructions on how to order the meal in Chinese or how to use chop sticks.
The service hosting platform of Fraunhofer ISST follows client-server paradigm. Clients are light-weighted applications, running on PDAs or smartphones. They send periodically user's context information to the server, i.e. current location, time, user ID. Based on these parameters, the user's profile and ontology rules the server sends back a list with available services.
More details on COMPASS 2008 can be found at:
ERIGG.
ERIGG is a large project that was initiated by two dutch communities Winterswijk and Aalten and the german town Bocholt. It's a comprehensive tourist information system that involved a cooperation of many organizations, especially Fraunhofer ISST. The technical components that were developed are a WMS server offering cross-border map content, web portal, road network model, mobile navigation system for bikes, content management system for POI management.
I was originally involved into development of the navigation system. After I started working at GeoMobile GmbH, my task was to improve entire system architecture, to develop additional functional components and to make system support.
More details on ERIGG can be found at:
ODOBS. Dortmunder Online Bibliographie-Dienst.
ODOBS is a one-year project that was realized by a student project group
at the University of Dortmund. This new developed online bibliography service is a kind of
evolution of DBLP-project. DBLP is one of the world's most well known computer science
bibliography services. In contrast to DBLP, which is a repository of static html pages, ODOBS is based on J2EE technology. ODOBS offers a number of useful features like "notes", pdf and bibtex export, comprehensive search function etc.
ODOBS' location in internet is: http://odobs.de
Mobile Tour Guide.
Mobile tour guide is a fine combination of a navigation system and a personal "cultural" assistant. Based on your current GPS posotion, the mobile application displays information on so called points of interest nearby, i.e. monuments, buildings, squares, cafes, bars etc. This tour guide is a Windows Mobile application. It is able to play videos, audio files, show images and text content.
More details on Mobile Tour Guide can be found at:
Museum Guide.
Museum Guide was developed at GeoMobile GmbH for Windows Mobile, Android and iPhone. All the applications lead you through museum rooms and display information on current exponats. The main challenge is the indoor navigation. Due to successful cooperation with FH Dortmund these three realizations of the museum guide can locate a user with the precision of 2-4 meters. The utilized approach is based on signal strengths of WLAN access poits.
More details on Museum Guide can be found at:
Chiplist.
Chiplist is a prototype of an iPhone application, which assists a user in proper nutrition. Chiplist is actually a system with a scientific background, which was worked out by Dr. med. Klas Mildenstein. The Chiplist can be found in many pharmacies all over the world in a paper format. Geomobile GmbH offered a digital version of this product.
More details on Chiplist can be found at:
Juicy Beats Guide.
Juicy Beats is a great event that annually occurs in Dortmund. Thousands of techno fans come to Westfalen Park Dortmund to have a lot of fun. GeoMobile GmbH contributed to the organization of the festival with an iPhone application. The Juicy Beats guide displays the user current position, informs about the bands currently playing at different stages, contains infos on artists and much more.
More details on Juicy Beats Guide can be found at:
