MyCampus WLAN

THE FEATURE -- MyCampus was specifically set up to develop context-aware mobile services for Carnegie Mellon's community. The system runs on PDAs and across 700 WLAN access points located around the university, and it is used daily by 3,000 people to help them study, socialize, plan meals, attend events, shop, and engage in extracurricular activities.

Main points:

• MyCampus consists of several task-specific agents that automatically capture contextual information.
• Each MyCampus user has a database, called a "Semantic eWallet," which is a repository for users' personal information, such as class schedules, list of friends and classmates, and lifestyle and event preferences.
• Location data is generated using Pango's WiFi access-point triangulation. All the data is marked with Semantic metadata so that MyCampus agents can make use of it.
• Users can set access privileges to allow certain people to know where they are at any given moment, or what their schedule for the upcoming week is.
• An application called InfoBridge lets users post and read "virtual posters" about upcoming events.

The most practical use of this technology at Tipperary Institute would be to order lunch items from the canteen staff.

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Carnegie Mellon -- "MyCampus"
Mark Frauenfelder -- "Semantic Web on Mobile Devices" and A Mobile Web That Knows All About You
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