Waldo is a suite of microservices based on indoor localization.
Helps improve indoor localization
Delivers accurate location data to first responders that existing
mapping and location services cannot.
Provides a fully customizable application for events and venues
Enhances user experience through custom built interfaces tailored for
each event.
Analytics for valuable insights
Provides unique insights about user behaviours and patterns.
Businesses Buy
Businesses can buy or product directly from us and get custom built
interfaces for their users to access and enjoy. These can include
museums, hackathons, concerts and conferences.
Businesses Sell
Our clients can choose to sell these interfaces to their users for a
small fee, like in the case of a museum. Being a mobile application
offers flexibility and computing power that over devices cannot.
Businesses Gain
We also deliver impactful data about user behaviour to our clients.
These can help understand what times are peak hours, which sections of
the 'event' are more popular and hundreds of others possibilities.
First Responders Too
In the case of an emergency, we can provide first responders critical
information based on user's real-time information which can help in
moments of life and death; for example, Waldo can help a fire chief
better manage and understand a situation by receiving real time location
data of all the people involved.
Waldo was built using Android Studio for the Android platform. The Waldo team surely plans on bringing Waldo to iOS. A picture of our tech stack is attached.
The Waldo team will be contacting museums & other businesses that could benefit from this and exploring testing Waldo in a real world environment.
To run the Android App, import the project into Android Studio and
insert your Google Map API key and Navisens key. Also make sure to place
the google-services.json (Firebase init file) in the app/ folder.
To change the location, the latitude and longitude coordinates should be
adjusted accordingly.
To run the Web App, make sure the Android App is running and update the
Firebase information in the index.html file.
To run the Solace script, update the Firebase and Solace information in
the Python file. Make sure to run:
pip install paho-mqtt
Note: this was tested using Python 3.7
I would also advise on using a virtualenv and make sure if you're on an
enterprise network like a University network, that the Solace port is
not blocked. If you have doubts, run the script on a VPN or using an
external hotspot.
If anything is not working, feel free to reach out at: dhvani.patel@uwaterloo.ca
