BLIP is a naive solution for effective tracking of assets in indoor spaces, where satellite (GPS) based positioning systems are unreliable, and provide location based contextual services. This project was made at IndiaHacks: Internet Of Things Hackathon at SAP Labs, Gurgaon. It was an overnight hackathon and Paul and I were awake till the last moments and only slept after creating a small demo video.
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We were inspired by the The Time Machine (2002) movie’s scene where the protagonist enters a museum in the future.
During the hackathon we were able to make an app that relays RSSI values to our real time Database (rethink-db) that works on a pub-sub model, queries the real time database for its calculated position and receives contextual information relating to its predicted position inside the building where beacons have been set up.
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Since, the final submission deadline was extended, we were able to reach back our campus at night and shoot a demo video at our university’s library.
Finally, we were selected in the top 20 for the offline finals of IndiaHacks and went to Taj Vivanta, Bangalore. It was a nice experience where we got to improve our idea with the help of mentors that were available there. We tweaked the algorithm and the variables a bit for the demo room we made at the venue. We were surprised to be among the few student teams at the finale.
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We gave our best and demo’d the project and were finally awarded the 7th position and received two RaspberryPi 3B models as the prize.
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