Registration & Networking over Lunch

Introduction and Welcome by Cambridge Wireless Location Based Systems/Services SIG Champion, David Bartlett of Omnisense

Welcome from our Sponsor, Hamid Ahmadi, VP/Chief Innovation Officer, CSR

State of the Art: Inertial and Opportunistic Positioning; Dr Rob Harle, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Rob’s talk will review the latest advances on infrastructure-free indoor positioning using inertial and opportunistic positioning. It will discuss the use of commodity smartphones as the core positioning device and the associated algorithms such as SLAM that are gaining popularity.

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State of the Art: Vehicle Tracking; Simon Reed, Head of Technical Services Group, Transport for London

TfL accurately tracks 8500 public service vehicles on one of the world’s largest metropolitan bus
networks. The technology feeds a host of back office services, from service control to paying bus
operators £1.6bn annually for the services operated. In 2012, TfL launched an Application Programme Interface (API) that feeds this operational data – the predicted arrival data and service information – to third parties for the development of smartphone ‘apps’ , research and development projects. Simon will outline the technology used and share the experience and business benefits TfL experienced with the API operation.

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Fast Pitch Session: Companies will each have 3 minutes to pitch to the Auditorium

 TravelAI – Andreas ‘Zac’ Zachariah
 Omnisense – Andy Thurman
 Passive Eye – Jerome Rush

Refreshments and networking

When Location is Everything, you would be lost without it; Olaf Baars, Chief Fire Officer, Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service

In a world of variables and uncertainty, there can be little more reassuring than a geospacial reference. It is hardly surprising then, that the world of the emergency services revolves around location. The presentation will provide some insight into quite how mission critical location is for the emergency services. Unashamedly focusing on the fire and rescue service, the presentation will cover all three emergency services. It will identify how location data currently contributes to emergency
service operations and draw out some of the existing challenges where location can be critical to effective operations and life itself.

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The Possibilities of Prediction: Mirco Musolesi, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science - University of Birmingham

Mobile phones are increasingly equipped with sensors, such as accelerometers, GPS receivers,
proximity sensors and cameras, which can be used to sense and interpret people behaviour in realtime. Novel user-centered sensing applications can be built by exploiting the availability of these
technologies. Moreover, data extracted from the sensors can also be used to model and predict
people behaviour and movement patterns, providing a very rich set of multi-dimensional data, which
can be extremely useful, for instance, for marketing applications, real-time support for policy-makers and health interventions. In this talk I will discuss the scenarios that are opened by the emergence of
this new paradigm of mobile anticipatory computing, presenting the challenges and the opportunities in this new field.

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Debate on the motion: 'Prediction will enhance services so they are relevant to the “here” and “now”’ - chaired by SIG Champion, Andrew Matthews of Nokia Research Centre

All speakers will have two minutes to state their position

Open Debate including all speakers and delegates

Concluding Remarks by SIG Champion, Nigel Wall of Climate Associates

Event closes