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So, hello everyone, my name is Maxime Volovinkel and today I'm going to talk about indoor

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environments and indoor positioning systems.

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Or more specifically, how I want users to be able to easily discover these environments

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and systems.

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Now, before I get into details, I'll quickly go and introduce myself, so I'm researcher

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at the fan of his dead bristle, which is not super far from here, and my interests

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may include indoor positioning systems, linked data, and the interoperability of positioning

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systems.

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Or more specifically, how I can exchange data between positioning systems in a way that you

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don't use too much information.

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Now, to help me with this, I created several open source projects and the main one being

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open HBS, which is an open source hybrid positioning system framework.

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Later to this, I have a Pozontology, which actually describes what a positioning system

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should be, what it should look like, and also important for this stock is the Sembeacon

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Specification, which is a semantic beacon specification, but I'll explain that in more detail.

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Oh, sorry, if I'll explain that in more detail later.

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Now with these three projects, I basically want to create a world where indoor environments

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and indoor positioning systems are as easily discoverable as their outer counterparts, which

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at the moment is not really the case.

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So if we take a look at the current state of geospatial data, we see that we have a very

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service-centric approach, where we have a lot of services that collect and crowdsource geospatial

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data, and you have applications that can easily interface with those services.

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Now some services may contain more data or more details than others, but in general, you're

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always capable of obtaining some form of data from a particular service.

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But the same can not really be said about indoor environments.

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There are also services that crowdsource indoor data, but it's more fragmented and not

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complete, some data is also private, some data requires very difficult procedures to obtain

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the data.

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So for an application, it's very difficult to rely on a single service to obtain indoor

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information.

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And to solve this, well, a similar issue or a similar story can actually also be seen

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with positioning systems, because outdoors we mainly rely on global positioning system

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or satellite-based positioning systems, but indoors we have a lot of different types of

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positioning systems, and there's not really a standardization that tells you hey, look

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for this particular building, you should use a particular positioning technique.

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For over these indoor positioning systems, often require knowledge about the environment

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or the infrastructure in that environment, which, again, goes back to our previous issue

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that this information is very fragmented across different services.

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What you then often see is for positioning systems that they have a very proprietary application

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that's proprietary for particular building, a particular framework, or even just a single

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positioning system for a single event conference or meetup.

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So what I want to do is I want to be able to discover this data without forcing building

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owners to put their information on a particular service or changing their data formats to

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another format.

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And if we talk about data discovery, we mainly see that we have global and local, this

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discovery, global is quite known, it's like a geocoder or geospatial query on a database

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where you just input a location, you get information, but with local discovery, I want

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to get more approximated based discovery where we can find information when we are actually

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at the location.

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And in the case of a positioning system or an indoor positioning system that makes sense,

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because we need a positioning system when we are at a particular location and at that

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point, we might as well also get some information about the environment.

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And I call this geospatial-centric data discovery where the actual data is presented by the

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very locations rather than using predefined services.

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But there are some challenges.

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How do we find this data without, again, relying on a centralized server and challenge

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to, once we get data, how do we actually understand it and how do we know how to use this

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particular data?

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Because there are a lot of different formats and specifications to represent indoor data, of

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course.

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Now my solution is a bit of a two-step solution where basically our buildings will

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advertise themselves or proximity-based advertising themselves.

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And we can actually ask, hey, look, I want more information about you, can you give

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me some information.

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And instead of directly giving some information, it will instead give you a source of

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information that you can then query.

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Now instead of just getting data and not being able to understand it, it will also provide

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you with a metaphorical handbook or a manual on how to actually read or understand that

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particular data.

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And to do this, I have several open source projects.

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And the first one I want to mention is OpenHPS.

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The OpenHPS is an open source hybrid positioning system framework, created in TypeScript.

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And it's very low level in the sense that you can create your own algorithms and change

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your algorithms in a pipeline.

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It provides you with a data structure to create positioning systems, but it doesn't provide

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you any applications or any UI elements or any UI editors to create these positioning systems.

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It's really a backbone for a positioning system.

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The reason why I want to mention OpenHPS is because one thing we noticed when developing

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OpenHPS is that despite all the standardizations, if location data and geospatial

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data, there's still the issue of positioning systems and not being able to exchange data

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in a way that you don't lose too much information.

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And to solve this, we created an ontology called Pozontology.

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Now, if you don't know what an ontology is, or if you've scared about ontologies, don't

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worry.

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I will explain it very briefly in a moment.

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But in general, it's a description of what a positioning system should be, what algorithms

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and technologies that are included in a positioning system, what the purposes of the positioning

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system or what it's actually tracking, and also where it is deployed, the environment or

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some other infrastructure that's required for this positioning system.

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Now, again, if you don't know what an ontology is, take it as you describe certain data

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by using other existing data that's on the web.

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So basically, what we do is we create a web of information or a semantic web of information

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where individual concepts are described by using other existing concepts.

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So if you don't know what an indoor positioning system is, for example, you might know

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what a positioning system is, and you also might know what an indoor environment is.

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Combined it together, you know that it's an indoor positioning system.

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And by doing so, we can actually provide some additional context about something.

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Now, this is a very visual representation of how it would look like.

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I will not go into full detail here.

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But for example, here we would have a subject that has certain position, a velocity and

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position, a velocity orientation and position.

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It has certain observations created using a particular positioning system, created in

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a certain reference frame, but it's a graph representation of what this data would actually

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look like.

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And now, importantly, we come to the sembeacon specification and surrounding tools.

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Now it's built on the notion that indoor positioning systems often make use of beacons,

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or in most cases they make use beacons, but these beacons are bit useless without an additional

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database.

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So, what sembeacon's does, it's advertisers and namespace and instance identify it.

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For an application and namespace and instance identify it doesn't give a lot of information.

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If you know something about this namespace and instance perfect, but if you don't know anything

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about it, then you just know that there is a beacon with a certain namespace, but you

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have no information.

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So what you can actually ask sembeacon and say, hey, look, I see that you're here, but I

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don't know who you are.

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Can you give me a bit of information?

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And it will respond with a URI.

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The simple URI that says, hey, look, this is where you can find more information about

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me.

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And this URI actually leads them back to this ontology or this linked data representation

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or this semantic web of information, where we actually describe the beacon, the environment

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to beacon is located in, but also other infrastructure, other devices, other points of interest

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that are within this environment.

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And we can then use that information to visualize or to discover these in your maps, but

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we can also use that to discover other devices and points of interest in that piece.

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Now these namespace and instance identify it as not just random numbers that we chosen.

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They are actually based on the resources or the URIs that you will access.

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So if you see two namespaces or two similar namespaces, you know that you only need to access

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the URI of one of them to fetch the information.

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And it's also backwards compatible with I beacon and alt beacon, which are common specifications

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used for indoor positioning systems.

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So you can use a beacon, a send beacon to provide contextual information about I beacon in

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your building.

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And it's not that you have to replace every existing infrastructure or every existing I beacon

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in a building to create or to create a contextual or geospatial centric discovery.

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Now, as I've already said, it's a Bluetooth specification, but it's actually a combination

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of alt beacon and a destone combines together with some additional flex.

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And what you actually have with a beacon is that you can advertise signal, passively, a beacon

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can just send signal, hey, I'm this, I'm this, but it can actually also respond to a scanner

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request.

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And with that response, we can send a different response than our normal advertisements.

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And we utilize this to send an additional URL compatible frame that contains this short

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resource URI that then resolves to this link data information.

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We also have a Bluetooth 5-pointed specification that doesn't use this scanner response.

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It's also not backwards compatible, but in this case, we can use, make use of the extended

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range to broadcast that information.

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And the flex basically provide more contextual information about URI, so that an application

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knows what to expect from the online data.

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For example, it can indicate if the beacon will contain a position, if it's part of a positioning

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system, or if it requires authentication to fetch the information.

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We also created the mobile application, and originally it started as a very basic way to

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simulate and scan for send beacons and to get some basic contextual information.

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But we kept on expanding it a bit more and more so that it can also visualize these

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in-nour environments that it can visualize the points of interest in those environments,

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the different floors of a building, the floor maps, and so on.

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And lately, we also expanded it so that we can link it to a personal data hold, call

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it, which is a vault, a personal data vault, where you can store data, binary data,

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but also linked data.

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And this case, it's cool because you can actually make certain data available for a group

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of people, or a particular user or a particular application, and you can provide authentication

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to that date.

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So the send beacon will still advertise the URI to everyone who is in proximity of the building,

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that only a certain type of people or certain people with certain rights will be able

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to access the information.

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Now, this might look a big scary, this is a very basic example that I will explain it

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in a second, or very briefly explain it in a second.

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It's a simple RDF representation of what a single floor would look like, where we have

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a floor map with schema.org, we have the geosparkle OGC, where we have the well-known text

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to represent a certain geometry, but this is just one example.

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The idea is that we can use the link data to say, hey, look, instead of writing everything

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like this, we just say, hey, look, I have an IMDF file that contains information about

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my indoor environments, do with it what you want.

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And maybe you can even provide multiple different data formats if they are available, but

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what we want to do with this link data representation is just make it clear or make it

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interoperable, that applications will be able to see, hey, look, what data is available,

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how can I access it, and if it doesn't know how what IMDF is, it can learn more about it

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by traversing the web and learning more how to represent or read this particular data.

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Now, the roadmap for the post-ontology, at the moment we have an open call for issues,

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or open call for examples or use cases, where we want to learn more about what do you want

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to, or what do you expect from a positioning system, but you expect from a vocabulary

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that can describe these positioning systems.

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We recently released a new version of our ontology design, which is also available now and

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get up, so if you have any feedback on that, that's also welcome.

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For Sembeacon, we have a few tools, so we have of course our mobile application that I

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showcased earlier, we have also there an open call for examples or implementations of unsupported

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indoor environments, so if you, if the application does not support a certain type of environment

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that you think should be supported, then it's definitely welcome.

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We are currently only have Android support, but we are partially implementing the iOS support.

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We have an Arduino library that can scum for Sembeacon, and that can also make the Arduino

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act as a Sembeacon, but at the moment it has no retrieval of the data, so it would be

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cool if the embedded device is still capable of obtaining a small subset of information

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such as the location or a simple geometry of the environment, because that would be quite

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cool.

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In a specification itself, it's also available on GitHub, so if you have any feedback there

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for improvements, that's also welcome.

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Let's do a quick demo, brace yourself, it's life demos, it's always a very tricky thing

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to do, but normally everything should go as planned, so this is a, oops, let me quickly

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go to my application, so I have two applications running, one to simulate the beacons,

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and this is the application that can actually scan, if I'm at the moment, if I would scan,

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I will see beacons that are available in this environment, which at the moment does not seem

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to be any, but I can start, for example, by advertising a few IBICs, so I will advertise

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a few IBICs, you'll see them popping up here on the screen, but contextually, they don't

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tell a lot, I can see how far they are, I can click on them, see, okay, yeah, it's 16 centimeters

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away, but that's about it, I have no information about it, but what I can do is when I

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now enrich or when I now broadcast a send beacon, I can provide information about the

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send beacon, but also about other beacons within that same environment, in this case, if I

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start the send beacon, then hopefully, then hopefully it will pick up the thing, or maybe

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I'm broadcasting a bit too much with one second, let's try this again, okay, welcome to

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live demos, okay, with one second, wait, I'm not clear everything, okay, wait, okay, so that's

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still going, so in general, the idea would normally be that it should pick up the phone, but at

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a moment it's working there, I would say, it's working, it's working, and we'll investigate

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the issue, but normally the idea would in that case be that we actually, I will quickly,

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still have a second, I will quickly do a very quick emergency up-info clear data that's always

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a good thing to do, I was testing it so much and it worked, so that's the issue of, okay,

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okay, let's start again, come, come, come, beacons, beacons, beacons, and now it is not working anymore,

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okay, well, I will leave it to that, but what you can do is you can download the application,

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you can try it yourself, and that way you can also investigate it a bit more in detail,

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because as you can see, life demos, you have to brace yourself, because you never know what's going

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to happen and where it's going to fail, so yeah, that brings me already a bit to the end of the

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presentation, so if you want to learn more about Pozo OpenHPS of Sandbeacon, you have some sites here,

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they're also available on the PhosDem sites, the QR code will just go to the slides, so you can also

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find it on the PhosDem website, but if you have any questions, let's me know, thank you for your attention.

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So are there any questions? Yes? How tightly is it tied to Bluetooth?

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Well, could you also run into my files, so the type of routers could announce themselves

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epic, it's only a large scale. Well, at the moment, well, the ontology or everything behind the scenes,

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that's on the web, so the only thing you need there is that browser doesn't even require these

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Sandbeacans, at the moment a specification is only made for Bluetooth, but we can indeed investigate

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seeing that the logic behind it is actually on the web, we can actually, of course,

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have a way to advertise you arrive via Wi-Fi, and that would also work the same way.

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We just have to make sure that it's, again, not something proprietary, that then requires

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a specific protocol, because of course, that would defeat the purpose again, of course.

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Yes? How does it relate to 5G and the function make sense, that are standardized?

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Well, the thing is that this, the DS5G, it will work for the positioning, it will also, in some cases,

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work for indoors, but at that point you don't get, you still don't get the environments,

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and this environmental data is still necessary or required. Let's imagine that you're at

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false them, you have to find this specific room. It's one thing to know, ah, you have this gray

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building, and your location is exactly somewhere in this gray building, but it's another thing to

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actually see the hallways, to see the rooms, so that you know where to enter, and it's not a door

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that was over there, where what I was trying, when getting into this specific room.

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So, you still need to wait to discover these environments, and seeing that eye beacon and beacons

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are still widely used for indoor environments, it seemed like an appropriate use to also just

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provide additional context alongside these vehicles. If a phone has access to access to the air pressure,

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yes. So, the same beacon is just the way to advertise, hey, this is available, and it can then

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use or describe a positioning system that's used indoors, and that positioning system can say,

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hey, look, I require data about Bluetooth beacons, I require data by Wi-Fi access points, and

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I require data about pressure if that's available. But that's inside the description of what you

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want to represent. This. Yeah, I have a building that I have this

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important. No, we tested it at our own building, because we also noticed, for example,

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that's for OSM, there's indoor data, for example, at my campus, but there is only one floor,

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of one building that has this indoor data, and it happens to be the floor where scientists or

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computer scientists are located. So, yeah, that's of course an issue, but what I really want to

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to focus on with this is, I don't want to force someone to use OSM or want to force someone to use

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a specific service. I just want to say, hey, look, create it, however you want. If you have

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cut drawings, be my guest, but I just want to make sure that a building owner can still decide,

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hey, look, I want to make this available public in whatever data format that I want, and not in

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a specific data format. Yes.

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I don't have to know if you have a comparison between the system that you have to read it,

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and then you have to have other finishing commercial projects that have tried to solve this

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in this position, and advertising won't be in terms of indoor data format.

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We have such an comparison.

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So, they have some of the voice management shopping modes, and all the data can also be public.

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If I would go back a bit to the example of how indoor data is available, what we often see is

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data can be available either via services, or often it's a requirement by a city or municipality

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to collect in this data. In Belgium, I know it's not super public always to get this information,

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but I'm not aware of 100% sure how it isn't China, but it could be that for example,

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that data is available for the public, or to those applications that want to use it.

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So, I'm not sure in that case, but I assume that it's more of an on a governmental level

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that they provide access, but I cannot really 100% be sure about that.

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Yes.

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What's wondering, if it could be used to track people, or if you have already,

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taking measures to maybe interest privacy?

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Well, there is what we do have in the mobile application, quickly go there.

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So, what we currently have is a deliberate tracking of people.

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So, what you can do, if you, for example, connect it to your own solid pods, is that you can

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advertise yourself, or your business card, so to say. So, what you can do is you can say,

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hey, look, I look into my solid pod, it contains information about you, and you can basically

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walk around advertising you as a beacon, as a moving beacon, which then allows others to

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easily get your contact information, but this is deliberate way of sharing your information.

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Now, of course, it can always be used negatively. Now, in the case of the mobile application,

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or the way how I envision it, the mobile application is just a way to scan for static beacons

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fixed with a fixed position somewhere in your environment. If it would be used the other way around,

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then it's usually for the purpose of tracking. For example, you could put the beacon on a dog,

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so that when the dog is lost, that they can get a contextual information and see,

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oh, this is the owner's contact information and so on, but that's more for deliberate tracking.

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You would actually have to advertise yourself in that case to share that information.

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Any other questions, or I think, at the end of the time? So, again, thank you.

