Case Study
Smart Networked Environments
Development of interactive kiosks for the leading UK universities
Smart NE is an Essex-based company that developed a revolutionary indoor mapping
and navigation technology leveraging the Bluetooth Low Energy beacons. They came
to us for help with delivering this technology via a series of interactive kiosks
that could be used by students to help them navigate throughout the university campus.
levels.digital worked alongside the Smart Networked Environments core team to develop
a web-based software to power the interactive kiosks. This software allows the kiosks
to be used by students to find their way to the lectures, view available seminar rooms,
events timetables, professor directory and the live bus departures from the bus stops
adjacent to the university campus.
These kiosks are now used by students in the leading UK universities, such as the University
of Oxford, Birmingham, Warwick and many others.
WHAT WE DID
Smart Campus development
Integration with the national bus scheduling database
Proprietary API integration
OUTCOMES
4
weeks from kickoff to delivery
6+
universities using this technology
THE JOURNEY
levels.digital was approached by Smart NE to leverage our development expertise
to complete their indoor navigation solution in time for the full-scale rollout
across in the leading UK universities. We began the project by integrating the
Smart Campus platform with the national bus scheduling database. This allowed us
to display the live and scheduled bus departures from the bus stops adjacent to the
university campuses, which would enable the students to leave the campus at the right
time to catch the bus back to their accommodations.
Next step was to develop a web-based technology that could run seamlessly within the
interactive kiosks and display the navigation, room scheduling, staff directory and
bus departures. We worked closely with the SmartNE team to integrate this solution
with their proprietary APIs and test it on the full-resolution kiosks.
Finally, the solution was rolled out across several universities on-schedule and without issues.
01
Live bus departures API
02
Development
03
Launch
TECHNOLOGIES USED
