iBrussels & OybleKristof Michiels Vrije Universiteit Brussel, IBBT-SMIT

12-04-23 1Herhaling titel van presentatie

Introduction

- The iBrussels Wireless Campus- Application strategy: towards a organically

growing “Virtual Service Delivery Platform”- The example of Oyble- Demo

iBrussels: wireless campus

• mission: a permanent test- and demozone active partnership with industry

and government platform for scientific research and

education• Offer living lab environment with

+10000 users• design, develop & evaluate

reference applications in a real life context

• focus on mobile, web 2.0, internet of things

Urbizone as a catalyst

• Free public wifi network on university campus• Supports broadband-intensive services• 1 km2 outdoor + strategic indoor coverage• Direct connection to fiber

backbone• Active user community• Part of larger Brussels wifi

infrastructure (largest in Belgium)

Focus of experiments

• Different application domains– Sport & leisure– Education / R&D– Culture– Work/productivity– Social networks

3 examples

AirGraffiti Mind the Steps Wayfinding 2.0

Sensor-based navigation for public spaces

Motivational community activity monitor

Context-aware urban mobile service

These applications are not silos

• Developed pragmatically

• Exist as independent applications and tools within campus portfolio

• At the same time pieces of a larger puzzle

• Versatile components that can be used by other applications

Virtual Service Delivery Platform

• Strategically add to a “Virtual Service Delivery Platform”

• And by opening up your technical infrastructure: users can become co-creators

Oyble: part of iBrussels demozone

• Developed out of real campus needs

• We have a teacher-student e-learning platform: Pointcarré (Dokeos-based)

• Problem of last-minute notification, re-scheduling classrooms

• Could not depend on mobile internet alone, must have a wider reach

Oyble: a piece of the puzzle

• Initial idea of an sms alerting application…

• … soon became that of a loosely coupled service that allows members of any group to connect in heterogeneous circumstances

• Much more use cases possible

Oyble: a group-communication hub

• Users can send/receive messages or interact with the service using SMS, e-mail, the web or an API

• A widget that can easily be pasted into existing websites is available

• May be used as broadcast or as many-to-many communication tool

User talking, other users listening

smssms

emailemail Custom app

Custom app

webweb

smssms

Or group conversation

oybleoyble

Oyble

• Swiss army knife: API to get messages in + make it possible to speak to other APIs from within Oyble

• Can be used as application extension, part of VSDP-puzzle

• Not limited to the campus demozone

Other use cases / the future

• Letting users and groups (e.g. student bodies, research departments) use it on the iBrussels campus

• Opening up to other interested parties• Exploring other use cases:small-to-medium

sized communities (e.g. ‘soccer parents); bridging communities and technology (e.g. grandparents-grandchildren, digital divide project, …)

Try it out / contact

• iBrussels Wireless Campus /demozone– Pleinlaan 2 – B-1050 Brussels– http://ibrussels.etro.vub.ac.be– Jan Cornelis: jpcornel@etro.vub.ac.be– Kristof Michiels: Kristof.michiels@vub.ac.be

– Sms: fireweek subscribe– Tel Sweden: +46 703 89 03 82– Tel Finland: +358 505 76 86 50– Tel Belgium: +32 497 63 83 40– You’ll receive a code that gets you into the

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The iBrussels Wireless Campus is a project initiated by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel & iLab.oWith the support of the Brussel- Capital Region