November 01, 2010
Smartphone App Changes Conference Attendees Experience
NEW ORLEANS – Thermopylae Sciences + Technology (TST), a Google™ Enterprise Partner, will debut the GeoHunt mobile application at the GEOINT 2010 Symposium, the largest annual intelligence conference in the United States. The development of event-specific mobile applications such as GeoHunt highlights the advancement of smartphones usage in information-sharing.
The four-day GEOINT 2010 Symposium brings together industry leaders within the geospatial intelligence community and encourages the unveiling of new technologies. GeoHunt illustrates a great stride in GIS software capabilities: Since smartphones are GPS-enabled, it provides in-building routing from one location to another. For more than 3,000 conference attendees, GeoHunt accomplishes both of these goals by utilizing a Google Maps™ floor plan overlay to lead users through the 100,000 square feet of exhibit space directly to specific vendor booths. Through using the augmented reality feature, users can scan their surroundings with their smartphone, instantly revealing the nearest refreshments, bathrooms and other points of interest.
Additionally, GeoHunt features a virtual scavenger hunt that allows users to scan QR codes placed around the Exhibit Halls, leading users to various locales throughout the city. Upon successful completion of the scavenger hunt, users can visit the Google symposium booth to receive a special prize.
From navigating through more than 200 vendors, to planning his or her agenda, to viewing Google Map pins for a scavenger hunt throughout New Orleans, GeoHunt showcases how smartphone development is changing the human experience—as a smartphone user and as a conference attendee.
GeoHunt is based on TST’s Ubiquity mobile application platform, which is currently developed for the Google Android and Apple iOS. The platform allows users to create location-specific functionality online and then share their creations with Ubiquity mobile application users. Its broad scope allows businesses, events, locations, individuals, groups and causes to access and contribute information, thus providing users substantially more from their mobile experience. Ubiquity can be deployed for commercial, government or military applications.
