Flash Lite Mobile Reminder

Links to refer:

http://www.biskero.org/?p=761
http://www.felipeandrade.org/blog/?cat=13
http://wiki.kunerilite.net/index.php?title=Timer_plugin
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Photos_Graphics/Web_Graphics/Macromedia_Flash/ActionScript/Q_23708749.html
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=193091
http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/CS001291_-_Modifying_calendar_entries_in_Flash_Lite

Maybe Useful:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7e53.html

XML Parser for Flash Lite 2.x and 3.x ActionScript

This is a link to XML parser for flash lite 2.0. This will enable us to read and manipulate XML document in mobile (flash lite). It provides plenty of useful methods. If it works well, we'll go with standards without writing our own parsers.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashLite/2.0_FlashLiteAPIReference2/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118cd9b5f6e-776e.html

Advantages and Disadvantages of our design

Hey I found a link to a very good paper. They have a design very similar in nature to what we have been designing (the mobile based app. with initial data transfer through bluetooth, and then the application runs by retrieving the data from the cellphone's memory). They discussed other possible designs too (real time data fetching from server) and their advantages and disadvantages.

Link to the paper: http://www.gisdevelopment.net/technology/mobilemapping/soly_1.htm

Potential benefits of our application over currently existing mobile map applications:

* Search feature on map

* Specifically designed for a place acc. to the requirements of the costumer

* Additional information can be displayed

* Facility to manage events


Below are the advantages of off-line mode:

* Applications works anytime and anywhere

* Less expensive as compared to other modes which require connectivity

* No connectivity problems


Disadvantages of offline mode:

* Dynamic information/updates can't be provided

Science City Map

Background Reading

Most of the existing systems for viewing maps on mobiles use GPS or fetch maps from servers such as GoogleMaps, Yahoo! Maps, Windows Live Local.

None of the existing softwares provide reminders and alerts for events at a particular location. There isn't any software product which builds custom mobile based maps for a specific location. There is a very good possibility of the existence of a company that does exactly what we are doing for our project.

JVNMobileGIS :
This software is something we should look into. It is a J2ME based map viewer and offers features like saving map to image file and layers sorting. There is a 100kb file which can be downloaded from the link given above.

Other Links:
http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2008-June/041732.html
http://www.mgmaps.com/

Bluetooth Broadcasters

BluCose

BluMiner

Turning a PC into a Bluetooth Hub
I wasn't able to see the contents of this page since Flash player wasn't installed in the lab.

Advertise with Bluetooth
This link describes methods of advertising with bluetooth. Using a 'dedicated bluetooth device' for broadcasting is suggested on this page. I've asked the author to give some examples of 'dedicated bluetooth devices'. Let's hope we get an useful reply.

Bluetooth Server

Here are some bluetooth servers which pretty much match our requirements, but all of these cost a few hundred Euros!

All of these servers are designed for proximity marketing (www.bluetomorrow.com/content/section/392/513/).

The servers are listed below

1. The Bluevibe Hotspot (http://www.bluevibe.net/content/view/23/42/lang,en/#standalone)
   
2. Blue Moz (http://www.bluemoz.it/english/how_bluemoz_work.html)
   
3. Jellingspot Data Server

Check out the demo on Jellingspot site it gives a better insight of its working.