Building Server Location Detection for Mobile Service Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to effectively and efficiently provide building information, including service providers and services, to mobile device users at the right location and time, due to concerns over security, data relevance, and privacy, leading to information being inaccessible or difficult to access.
Innovation Solution
A system that detects a mobile device's location within a building and provides relevant building information, such as service providers and scheduled appointments, through a building-server device, allowing users to select services and navigate to service providers while ensuring data security and relevance by limiting access to on-site users and scheduled services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If building information is made accessible to mobile device users, then information accessibility is improved, but security and privacy concerns worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by providing building information selectively based on the user's specific geographic location within the building. Information is made accessible only to users who are physically present in the relevant building, with data tailored to their specific location and context, thus balancing accessibility with security and privacy protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary mechanism that verifies the user's physical presence in the building through location detection before providing access to building information. This intermediary layer acts as a gatekeeper, allowing information access only after confirming the user's authorized presence, thereby resolving the contradiction between accessibility and security.
2Quantity of substance
If building information is provided to all mobile device users, then information completeness is improved, but data relevance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides building information with local quality by tailoring the content to the user's specific location within the building and their identified service needs. Rather than providing generic or complete information to all users, the system delivers relevant information specifically suited to each user's context, maintaining data relevance while ensuring completeness of needed information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies dynamics by adapting the building information provided to each user based on their real-time location, identified services, and specific needs. The information content dynamically changes according to user context, ensuring that complete and relevant information is provided only when and where it is needed, rather than uniformly to all users.
3Measurement precision
If location-based service provision is implemented, then service precision is improved, but system complexity worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies self-service by enabling mobile devices to automatically detect their own location and identify relevant building information without requiring complex manual configuration. The device autonomously determines its position, identifies the building context, and retrieves appropriate information, reducing system complexity while maintaining high service precision through automated location-based service delivery.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and user interfaces are provided. In some aspects, the provided techniques transmit to a mobile device a notification of one or more buildings, service providers; or services relating to a geographic position of, or an environment of, the mobile device. Information relating to services provided in a building may be displayed to a user, and the user's selection may be received by the mobile device. The user may be guided to one or more service providers for the user-selected service. Further Information relating to services, service providers, and buildings may be presented to the user as relates to the user-selected service. Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are further provided that, in some instances, notify a service provider of a user's selection received by the mobile device and in some instances, notify a service provider of a geographic position for the mobile device.