Archives for September 2014

GeoMonday the 4th – Developing location based apps for Gear; challenges and lesson learned

Gear_S_front_black_5Motorola, LG, Samsung, Sony, TomTom, Garmin, Apple and few more companies have recently launched or announced connected or smart watches.  While some people are still challenging the user benefits of a connected watch,  let ‘s look at the developer opportunities and challenges to deliver Location Services to a wearable with the example of the  “Navigator” app developed by HERE for the new Samsung Gear S.

TamerTamer Nassif is Senior Software Engineering Manager at HERE, a Nokia company and leading, building Local/international engineering teams (up to HC of 25) within North America, Europe and Asia. Working closely with customers, engineering, sales, and product owners, marketing and human factors (UX) to conceive, plan, design, develop, and deliver mobile/embedded and client/server software consumer product. He worked for and with the world’s top mobile handset OEM‘s and chipset makers. Delivered successfully on broad spectrum of software programs, products and services ranging from low tier (Emerging markets) to high tier (smartphones) products and consumer devices. Motorola RAZOR, Q9, CN620, DROID, BB Z10, BB 8920, Samsung Redwood Tizen, Gear S are examples of such products I worked or currently working on

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Esri is official sponsor of GeoMonday the 4th

The GeoMonday team wanna thank a lot Esri Deutschland for sponsoring our 4th edition all around Location and Internet of Things. Here a nice quote from the team:

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For spatial analysis, planning and decision-making, the geo information solutions based on Esri’s ArcGIS platform are the first choice in the private and public sectors as well as education and science. Adaptable and intuitive with integration options, industry standard ArcGIS can be used on mobile devices, desktops and servers and is highly appreciated by more than one million users worldwide.


As a distributor and systems house, Esri Deutschland GmbH, member of the Esri Deutschland Group GmbH, based in Kranzberg near Munich, sells the products of Esri Inc. on an exclusive basis at eleven locations in Germany and Switzerland. Esri provides support to users with a wide range of training, support and consultancy backed by combined experience and expertise of over 500 employees in the Esri Group.
Headquartered in Redlands, California (USA), Esri Inc. is a pioneer in the field of professional geo information solutions and the development of a modern understanding of the environment and its geographical, cultural and economic connections.

 

GeoMonday the 4th – Using spatial data streams in real-time

GeoEvent ProcessorMany sensors that make up the Internet of Things generate and stream data that have a spatial reference. Examples are flood gauges, positions of vehicles like planes or cars, but also geocoded tweets in social media. See how these spatial data streams can be used in real-time. This includes reading and analyzing the data as well as triggering subsequent actions.

Lars Schmitz kleinLars Schmitz is Product Manager at Esri Germany. He is responsible for all Esri developer tools and heads a program dedicated to developers and startups. Find his LinkedIn profile here: http://de.linkedin.com/in/larsschmitz.
 
Check out Esri’s developer portal at http://developers.arcgis.com for free developer subscriptions. Read Esri’s developer blog at http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/category/developer.

 

 

GeoMonday the 4th – Carspotting: Vimcar turns car data into hard cash for its users

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Vimcar leverages car data collected via onboard diagnostic ports. They use a tiny dongle which comes ready with GSM card and GPS sensor. Learn how the proof-of-concept product took shape and where Vimcar is headed next.
 
 
Malte Windwehr is Head of Marketing at Vimcar. Before that, he worked on communication strategies for SMEs in Germany and produced content for Condé Nast Digital, Deutsche Bank and several startups in Berlin. Malte learned his trade at Scholz & Friends Hamburg, Saatchi & Saatchi Frankfurt and Avantgarde New Delhi.
 
 
Follow their blog at: http://blog.vimcar.de/ or at Twitter: @goVimcar