Create Municipal information broadcast of services via physical web

[PaulKinlan]

• bus stops broadcast a url of time tables
• hotels broadcast a url of their availability and reservation form
• bike racks broadcast sign up page
• digital screens in l1 broadcast interesting events and you are here maps
• every shop broadcasts their website and opening times and contact information
• local government broadcasts opening times and online forms for interaction with that service.

[amcewen]

I've got ~10 of the physical web beacons that we could use for a trial if anyone fancies running with this. Or @PaulKinlan, you could always run a specific Code for Liverpool hackday around it?

The Physical Web being this project - https://github.com/google/physical-web

Could maybe tie-in with more traditional way-finding stuff, like creating something like the Legible London totems - http://tomchance.org/2014/07/15/bringing-pedestrian-maps-to-crystal-palace/

[davidtweaver]

Actually this intersects with some of the stuff I was talking to James Pulver about (although we were more talking about information systems for building infrastructure). I'd be interested in hacking around with the web beacons if you have a couple of spares?

[amcewen]

@davidtweaver Yes, pop in and grab a couple some time.

[jamieisboss]

@davidtweaver What's the status with the physical web stuff now? I thought the plan was to enable it as part of webview so you wouldn't have to have an app or chrome running on an android device I imagine there's a similar iphone deal.

I'm Particularly interested as this could be an enabler for several projects which could benefit from this and potentially fund some large orders of beacons of a magnitude to bring the cost per unit down,

[jamieisboss]

Physical Web is a bit dead, it's part of eddystone now, if you're luckier than me, your beacons will be upgradable.

Actually, they've changed their tune

To deploy beacons using the Physical Web, use Eddystone’s URL frame type (Eddystone-URL) to broadcast your website to users. Associate your beacon with any arbitrary URL and deploy it to a location. Users with a Physical Web-supported client such as Chrome can discover the website on their device.

In which case I'm working on a similar project with the uni, different target audience but same stuff, I'm in for some crosssover and might get some funding if the concept can be proved as part of a bigger system

[jamieisboss]

You can turn it on in the main android chrome build in Chrome://flags which is a bit exciing

[yowwsaa]

how to create a online municipal information system?