Interns Create Location Aware Messageing System for IBM

UK and Irish students in IBM’s Extreme Blue internship program developed “a location-aware messaging accessibility (Lama) technology to give people information about various locations via their mobile phones.” Basically, When a device moves into a building or other space specific information is fed to it, per an article in Computing. Not all that revolutionary, I know… But it does have particular allure for providing disabled visitors with more information or even providing those indecipherable announcements made in large crowds via another means. It might even wake sleepy passengers when their train stop is approaching. But, don’t expect to see something like this in corporate situations.

Frost & Sullivan analyst Alexander Michael said: ‘The system might be good for large meetings or conferences, where people are away from their desks, but in more general terms I do not think an IT department would want to be deploying this inside an office.’