HawkTour: A Mobile, Context-Aware Tour Guide System

Related to the book Local Positioning Systems, Tyler Butler, Santhosh Meleppuram, Xian-He Sun from the Illinois Institute of Technology describe the architecture of HawkTour, a TabletPC-based system, allowing visitors to tour the IIT main campus. Positioning is done by the fusion of GPS for outdoor navigation and Wi-Fi based transliteration for indoors. The project is now called MyWay that uses Segways to tour the Chicago city center.

Relation to my thesis: The architecture of HawkTour has many similarities with CatchBob! (TablePCs, Wi-Fi positioning, SOAP as high-level protocol, …). The description of their system is an inspiration for the formalization of the technical part of my CatchBob! postmortem into a paper.