Your mobile continues to get more functions. Now it can help you catch your plane when you find yourself in a remote part of the airport, busy shopping duty-free goods.
The mobile can guide you to the nearest baggage trolley and make you attractive offers of duty-free shopping. These are just some of the possibilities that a new project within an innovation consortium under the Minitstry of Science, Technology and Innovation is working on making come true.
The project takes 3 years. Risø participates in the project together with the IT University of Copenhagen, the H.C. Ørsted Institute and Lyngsø, the Airports of Copenhagen, BLIP Systems, GfK Danmark, the Ørsted Instute at DTU and the Alexandra Institute.
The system works by means of bluetooth, a technique for wireless communication between telephone and headset, telephone and PC etc. The mobile is connected to a service ensuring that the mobile phone and the system register where the passenger is, from which gate the plane will be leaving and the time of departure. Even if the passenger has found his way to a faraway café to enjoy a cup of cappucino, the mobile will notify when it is time to go to the gate. The staff at the gate are also helped by the system. They are able to follow missing passengers and be informed of what time they will be at the gate. Of course the travellor must agree to this kind of tracking.
”Apart from developing the system we are also going to examine people’s attitude to this kind of service”, say Steen Weber and Henning Boje Andersen from Risø, ”We do not know whether people have special wishes, doubts or whether they completely want to reject these services.”
The budget is 13 mill. Dkr. The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation supports with 6,6 mill., and the companies pay the rest in the form of labour. |