Wireless Information Network
WIN is a platform develpoed at the School of Engeneering and
Information Technology Biel (Switzerland), which makes it
possible to provide deticated services on mobile devices,
using the royalty free Wireless LAN technology.Location Based Services are as possible as dedicated solutions just used in a very limited area. The platform is now ready to solve all kinds of problems commenly encountred trying to implement lbs and mobile systems.
The module based architecture provides the posibility to develop without reenventing the wheel every time again.
WIN is the basis of the IBCLive used at the cross-country ski worldcup in the city of Bern held in december 2004.
Some of the features of WIN are:
WLAN and BlueTooth access
hierarchical linking of applications
high security specifications
transaction management
session management
very high scalability
Java Server (J2EE)
platform indepenency
interactive use of services
WIN Client
The client application installed on the mobile devices. This application
is able to visialize all currently existing and future services.
Some of the features of the WIN Client are:
localization of the currently available WIN services
display of text and images
receving pushed data
play audio and video streams
these streams may be live and distributed
by multicasting
intaractivity
Location Based Services change their behaviour depending on the actual position of the user.
Applications which are created using the WIN Framework and provided on a Wireless LAN network are called services. A typical WIN installation consists of one or more services.
The WIN client application on the mobile device detects the currently available WIN services on the Wireless LAN network at reach and offers this choice to the user in an automatic maner.
The WIN client application on the mobile device detects the currently available WIN services on the Wireless LAN network at reach and offers this choice to the user in an automatic maner.
