Wifi access points mounted close to public transport infrastructure can help in building user-friendly, context-aware navigation apps. For example, an app could you the BSSID or MAC address of the current WiFi access point to determine where in a station you are.
Large corporations will be able to deduce this data from their WiFi tracking data bases. Let's crowd-source this information a) to make information available to the community, and b) to level the corporate playing field.
I imagine the app flow as follows:
on open, the app will try to locate me via geolocation services
if that worked fine, it will ask me to confirm the station it computed
if it didn't work, i will have to manually enter the station name
it will ask a server which parts of the station haven't been mapped yet
it will scan wifis, allow me to select the one i want to enter¹
for each BSSID/MAC found, it will ask me to specify as precisely as possible where the accesspoint is, e.g. via map or platform
it may also ask me which other platforms this access point can be found from
it will send the published data to a server, which will
make the data available publicly
let other apps determine if the station has already been mapped
¹ for legal reasons we probably need to use a white list of ESSIDs, as personal wifi names might fall under data sovereignty & protection rules
Wifi access points mounted close to public transport infrastructure can help in building user-friendly, context-aware navigation apps. For example, an app could you the BSSID or MAC address of the current WiFi access point to determine where in a station you are.
Large corporations will be able to deduce this data from their WiFi tracking data bases. Let's crowd-source this information a) to make information available to the community, and b) to level the corporate playing field.
I imagine the app flow as follows:
¹ for legal reasons we probably need to use a white list of ESSIDs, as personal wifi names might fall under data sovereignty & protection rules