Smart guide: mid-scale NFC navigation system

摘要

Existing navigation systems that utilize GPS are unreliable on any smaller scales ventures such as on or within a campus and generally are unstable within buildings or other structures. We found a need to have a more reliable way to access directions when GPS systems were inaccurate or inaccessible. Since NFC readers are not uncommon in mobile phones nowadays, we propose a new portable system, Smart Guide, to utilize this underused technology in a new way. In this paper, we present Smart Guide that is an Android application using NFC to aid a user in mid-scale navigation.