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Osana Sitran alueellisen liikkumisen rahoitushakua toteutettiin Alueellisten Liikkumispalveluiden Integroitu Operointi -hanke (ALPIO). Hanke sisälsi alueellisia liikkumiskokeiluja Itä-Uudellamaalla, Etelä-Savossa ja Pirkanmaalla, joissa hyödynnettiin kutsuohjautuvaa liikennettä ja avattiin yhteiskunnan maksamia kuljetuksia ja palveluliikenteen matkoja itse maksaville sovellusasiakkaille. Kokeiluissa hyödynnettiin yrityskonsortion toteuttamaa teknologia-alustaa. Kokeilujen tavoitteena oli kustannussäästöt julkiselle sektorille, parempi palvelutaso asukkaille sekä ympäristöhyödyt. Kokeiluista on tuotettu erillinen vaikutusarviointiraportti. Tässä raportissa kerrotaan kuljetusten yhdistelyn taustaa sekä kuvataan kokeilut ja niiden osapuolet. Raportissa kerrotaan myös teknologianäkökulmaa kokeiluihin. Suositukset on esitetty hankkeen kokeilujen pohjalta, ja ne on suunnattu vastaavanlaisten liikkumispalvelujen ja -palvelukokeilujen järjestämiseen. Suositukset on jaoteltu suunnitteluvaiheeseen, toteutusvaiheeseen ja kokeilun jälkeiseen aikaan. Lisäksi annetaan politiikkasuosituksia niin kansallisella kuin alueellisella tasolla. Tärkeimmät politiikkasuositukset sisältävät kyytien yhdistelyn edistämisen lainsäädännön sekä julkisesti tuettujen kuljetusten ehtojen ja oikeuksien yhtenäistämisen. Suositukset jatkotoimenpiteistä sisältävät laajemmat kokeilut ja useampien palveluiden yhdistäminen samaan liikkumisjärjestelmään yhteiskunnallisten tavoitteiden edistämiseksi.

Bluetooth beacon is a short-range wireless communication device emitting simple advertisement messages in regular intervals, and this data can be detected by devices like smartphones and conveyed to the backend system for further processing. Beacons are small, affordable and very easy to install nearly everywhere due to long lasting (3-5 years) battery power. As a result of these convenient properties, it has been estimated that up to 400 million dedicated beacon transmitter will be installed in our living environment setting challenges to management of such a set-up. To ease this problem, this paper presents a prototype solution for open co-sharing of beacon installations between applications and services. This paper examines the requirements for management of co-shared beacon infrastructure in the highly dynamic context of public transportation and describes the related data model and experiences from a trial case.

One of the most prominent mobile payment technologies of interaction paradigms is Near Field Communication (NFC), which provides simple and secure two-way communication between electronic devices. However, NFC-based services have not increased as expected. In this paper, the NFC payment ecosystems are introduced and reasons to why their use has not rapidly become more prevalent are discussed. The presented research results are summarised from business case studies that were carried out in various Finnish companies during the period 2012-2015. The results showed that the sustainable and feasible solutions are based on recognised standards and open ecosystems; national, proprietary or otherwise restricted solutions do not work. Accordingly, it was recommended to start with Value Added Service (VAS) systems as these involved fewer security requirements. Finally, the analyses pointed out that tokenisation offers light security version for most of services in the business and it was experienced a remarkable way for promoting the mobile payment services.

Enabling mobility of elderly people increases their independence and active participation in society. In supporting mobility of elderly use of public transportation is a key element, which is a complex system where it is not easy to find a route to desired destination and this difficulty is compounded when passenger has lowered cognitive and sensory abilities and may even have problems in movement. This article describes a construction of a mobile navigation guide for the elderly, which is designed with the specialness of the target group in mind. The implementation of the navigational guide was "designed for failure" which takes into account that outages will occur and must be managed, ensuring that the elderly passenger is not left without any help. This article will delineate the design decisions and the implementation of the system which has been piloted in three European cities in Spain, Austria and Finland. Findings of first evaluation pilot are included and next steps are described.

International audience; Interoperability of mobile contactless city services has been emerging as a topic of discussion in many of the recent events by the representatives of industry and city organizations. Evidently, the interoperability has a connotation of a world where systems and devices interoperate or work together seamlessly. In the real world, such interoperability is a myth, and must always be built by considering the specificities of the existing artefacts. This paper studies and defines interoperability in the context of mobile contactless city services. We present three piloted mobile contactless city services to identify which kind of interoperability issues can be raised. Based on this analysis, an interoperability framework is proposed first by delineating the set of relevant entities and then by presenting four dimensions of the interoperability issues between the entities. We believe that this framework helps finding other related elements to make a coherent picture of interoperability in this context. It also leads to the definition of a relevant evaluation process. The goal of the paper is: (1) to properly define interoperability in our context; (2) to propose a set of evaluation criteria; (3) to propose an overview of an evaluation process

International audience; Smart cities must offer innovative mobile services in the areas of transport and culture. In this context, the ticketing services, which are key elements in the domains of transport and culture, have to be provided. In this respect, the impact of technological developments, including those related to NFC (Near Field Communication), which is a short range wireless technology, lead to the deployment of mobile contactless solutions. We highlight, in the paper, seven models to manage all or part of mobile contactless ticketing systems within smart cities. This study is based on the research conducted in the contactless ticketing area and on the return of experience gained within a European project. The models, which give a realistic picture of the various faces of such systems, are: the operator-centric model, the manufacturer-centric model, the identification-based model, the peer-to-peer model, the smart card-based model, the leeched smart card-based model, and the inverse reader model. We detail the characteristics of each model and present use cases. Furthermore, we present tracks indicating that these models may coexist within smart cities and we derive some perspectives on the evolution of these ticketing services by explaining that two models could be dominant.

A mobile device for enhancing context awareness in social networking includes a processor for processing data, a memory for storing data, a wireless transceiver for wirelessly transmitting and receiving data relative to remote devices, a short-range wireless transceiver, for wirelessly transmitting and receiving data relative to remote devices equipped with a compatible short-range interface, a social contact registration logic configured to obtain information from a mobile communications device of a social contact via the short-range wireless transceiver, the information identifying the social contact and/or the mobile communications device of the social contact, a context detection logic configured to obtain, via the short-range wireless transceiver, data distinctive to and provided by a tag disposed in a location accessible via the short-range data transfer, the distinctive data being thus indicative of the current location-based context of the mobile communications device and the user thereof, and a context notification logic configured to transmit an indication of the detected location-based context to a remote entity, via the wireless transceiver in order to enable providing at least one social contact of the user of the mobile communications device with knowledge of the current context.Patent family as of 17.12.2021Publication number Publication date Application number Application date GB201116119 A0 20111102 GB20110016119 20090220 GB2480418 A1 20111116 GB20110016119 20090220 GB2480418 B2 20131113 GB20110016119 20090220US2012019365 AA 20120126 US20090257784 20090220WO10094989 A1 20100826 WO2009IB00308 20090220Link to current patent family on right

This paper describes two different approaches to use Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled mobile phones in a ticketing system dedicated to event management: (i) a offline version where some equipments are not connected to the Internet ; (ii) a online version where an Internet connection is available on all the equipments composing the infrastructure. These two propositions are compared so as to evaluate their pros and cons in terms of user experience, security, economical aspects, reliability and speed of use. We also identified a scenario with six use cases and decided to focus on ticket issuance and ticket presentation

The recent development in mobile and web technologies have led to growing amount of personal digital content. This technological advancement opens up possibilities to special application domains, such as e-learning. In this paper we present MEL, a web application, which seamlessly combines user created multimedia with student's learning process in school environment. With MEL, the teacher can easily create assignments for students, who then can execute these assignments with mobile phones capturing multimedia content, such as videos or pictures. Once the assignment is executed the students can view, edit and share the content with other students and the teacher can utilize and review the results together with students. We report on field trial results with real users showing that MEL is rather easy to learn and use, even with inexperienced users, and present insights from user comments on utilizing mobile devices and user created multimedia for aiding the learning process

VTT:n Mobile Facility Management Services -tutkimushankkeessa, joka toteutettiin vuosina 2005-2008, tarkasteltiin kiinteistöpalvelualan ja rakennusalan mobiiliteknologiaan perustuvia palveluja ja sovelluksia. Lähtökohtana oli nykyinen palvelutarjonta, jonka käyttöintensiteettiä, käytettävyyttä ja tulevia haasteita selvitettiin asiantuntija-arvioiden perusteella sekä haastattelemalla alan yritysten edustajia. Uusia palveluja simuloitiin tietokoneella simulointiohjelmilla ja potentiaalisimmista tehtiin pilotteja yhdessä kiinteistöpalveluliiketoiminta-alan yritysten kanssa. Tutkitut mobiiliratkaisut perustuivat mobiiliteknologiasovellusten hyödyntämiseen, kuten J2ME, GPRS, NFC/RFID-teknologia, matkapuhelimen kamera ja GPS-teknologia. Puhelimen lisäksi mobiililaitteena voi luonnollisesti toimia normaali kannettava tietokone tai sopiva PDA-laite, jos laitteessa ja käyttökohteessa on toimiva langaton yhteys. Kiinteistö- ja rakennusalalla käytetään matkapuhelimia rutiininomaisesti soittamiseen, mutta myös tekstiviestien lähettämiseen ja sähköpostitukseen etenkin päällikkötasolla. Sen sijaan muiden sovellusten käyttäminen, kuten matkapuhelimen kameran käyttö, RFID-sovellukset ja GPS-sovellukset, ovat varsin vähän käytettyjä. Suomessa Nokia on integroinut em. sovellukset matkapuhelimeen, joten niiden saatavuus on helppoa, koska ei tarvita mitään erillistä laitetta. Varsinaiset PDA-laitteet ovat melko harvinaisia Suomessa, mikä poikkeaa varsin merkittävästi muiden maiden kulttuureista, joissa näiden laitteiden käyttö on selkeästi yleisempää (esim. BlackBerry Yhdysvalloissa). Mobiiliratkaisujen käyttöönoton oleellisimpia edellytyksiä ovat laitteiden ja sovellusten helppokäyttöisyys, luotettavat yhteydet ja edullinen hinta niin normaalikäytössä kuin myös datakäytössä. Viime aikoina hinnoittelu on selkeytynyt, joten sitä ei enää pidetä käyttäjien keskuudessa kovinkaan ongelmallisena. Matkapuhelimella osoittautui olevan monia käytännön etuja verrattuna muihin päätelaitteisiin: jokainen omistaa matkapuhelimen, työpuhelimet ovat hyvin yleisiä, laitteet ovat tuttuja, ja sitä kautta niiden käyttö koetaan helpoksi. Toteutetuissa piloteissa havaittiin myös jossain määrin yllättävä piirre: puhelimien käytettävyys päätelaitteena koettiin varsin hyväksi ja toimivaksi. Hankkeen alkuvaiheessa (vuonna 2006) oli havaittavissa, että kiinteistö- ja rakennusalalle mobiilipäätelaitteilla käytettävät palvelut olivat varsin uusi asia eikä niitä koettu sillä tavoin omaksi, että niiden kehittämiseen olisi oltu valmiita satsaamaan tai merkittävästi osallistumaan. Hankkeen aikana ja osin toivottavasti sen ansiostakin alan näkemykset mobiiliratkaisuista ovat muuttuneet oleellisesti. Nykyään nähdään ja ymmärretään niiden suuri merkitys toimialalle mm. tuottavuuden parantajana alan arvoverkoissa. Toisaalta on nähty laajemminkin, että kiinteistö- ja rakennusala todellisuudessa toimii kaikentyyppisten mobiilipalvelujen alustana: ihmiset toimivat rakennetussa ympäristössä ja käyttävät sen kautta välittyvää tietoa ja rakennetun ympäristön itsensä tarjoamaa informaatiota.

The aim is to describe the currently experienced benefits and obstacles for enhancing FM services with the currently available technological enablers. Mobile technology has a vide yet largely untapped potential for full mobility or micro-mobility workplaces, typical for FM services. This paper presents an integration of several studies conducted at VTT to identify the current benefits and obstacles of mobile technology as perceived by Finnish FM professionals. The main means of the study were (1) to describe the current technological enablers for the utilisation of mobile technology at FM settings and (2) to interview the FM professionals on their perceived benefits and obstacles of the utilisation of the currently available technology. Though the empirical part is limited to Finnish settings, the observations are likely valid in several other developed countries as well. The findings of the empirical part include currently feasible mobile solutions and their perceived limitations. The experienced benefits are discussed and critical success factors are nominated. The perceived benefits are mostly related to improved resource efficiency and quality control. The essential success factors and remaining obstacles are discussed. The change of practice to support the exploitation of mobile technology is emergent. The paper gives experience-based suggestions for both demand and supply sides of the service procurement to gain the feasible benefits and avoid the currently hindering obstacles, as the paper provides insight on current and future tools for the mobile aspects of FM. The findings are relevant for the service providers and operators as well.

With the advancement of mobile technology and its growth in popularity, the mobile environment has become a more attractive environment in which to offer services that need to be taken care after their development. The purpose of this study is to examine the field of postdevelopmental activities in the mobile environment now and how it will evolve in future when its importance has grown even more. A literature study was performed to examine what kind of domain is required for postdevelopmental life cycle phases in general and what kind of major processes have to be taken into account. Another major theme for the literature study was the mobile environment, which was approached from many directions in order to define it. The focus in this defining process was to map the current state of software and hardware in the mobile environment, and to examine the service paradigms and major technologies that affect the postdevelopmental phases. For this study, seven people from across the mobile service industry were interviewed in order to get a crosssection of opinions on this subject. Of these seven interviewees, three were representatives of service providers, two were from network operating companies and two were from companies that have been customers of mobile service projects. Eleven characteristics that outline the field of postdevelopmental activities in the mobile environment were found from the literature study and the interviews. According the interviewees, the most influential problem was the incompatibility of devices, which causes many smaller problems for the postdevelopmental activities. Seven trends that are shaping the environment were also detected from the interviews.