BLE , QRCode scanning App and

Hello, please read this document prior to confirming your proposal.

The format expected for your proposal is explained in the next paragraph and the general specifications are detailed afterward.

We are looking for a global solution including App development, back-end server setup and ibeacons, plus technical support level2 (for us only)

and maintenance and upgrades.

If you can provide a one-stop shopping solution we will be happy to consider.

Otherwise, if you can only provide App dev and back-end server setup we can find the Beacons supplier by ourselves.

We are looking at an agile but structured development process with lots of demos for process validation.

Any question, ask.

Have fun and enjoy proposing your services.

P.S. : we have others project to come like this one, please stay tuned !

Format of the work proposals
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If you are interested in this project, please present in your proposal
- The development tools that you are going to use (including version control i.e github, libraries i.e Phonegap, IDE, database i.e SQlite etc.)
- The overall architecture of the solution including backend server and device App
- The beacon technology if you want to provide it and a quote for series of 10, 50, 100, 1000
- The main WBS including modules, demos, alpha delivery, beta delivery, test plans, load test plan, final delivery
- The schedule of your developments with main milestones and expected payments
- Your proposal for supporting, maintaining and extending the solution

Payments will only occur after successful achievement of planned deliverables.
IMPORTANT : There will be no downpayment at project initialization. The first payment will occur when first milestone is reached.


Project description
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The project consists in developping an App, portable on iOS and Android (option Windows mobile).
This app will be able to read iBeacons IDs and use Beacon ID to retrieve information about the Beacon, stored in a local database.
Alternatively to Beacon IDs, the App shall be able to read QRCodes in "manual" mode.

The App local database content will be synchronized regularly with a remote database.


Beacons
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The Beacons technology will be Bluetooth Low Energy. We are looking for the smallest size and the maximum battery life.
The Beacons will be parametrized with unique IDs and the range of their emission will be programmable from 3 to 50 meters.
Beacons will need to be provided with API and parametering tool.

App installation
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The App will have to be installed from Android and Apple Store with a specific price to be determined.
The App will need to be fully loaded with QRCode and BLE libraries. It should not depend from another package for simplicity sake.


App Design
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Similarly to Google Fit, for instance, the App will display a single page featuring HTML5 content and one menu.
The list of the last scanned beacons and QRCodes will be displayed on the page.
The menu will feature two choices :
* Parameters
* Scan QR code
* About

The parameter menu item will display a page with
* information related to the user (photo ID, name, language)
* a section called Favorites that will display a list of last beacons scanned
* a section called "Data" where the user will set the account for Open ID (google, facebook,twitter)

The Scan QRCode menu item will launch a QRCode scanner. The returned code will be processed as an ID read from a Beacon

The About menu Item will display an HTML5 content


Database
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The local database used by the app will feature :

one table called display with these columns : id (serial, index) , creation.date, customer.name (char[256]), category char[256]
display.label(char[256]), status (integer), url (character[256]), lat (Float(10,6)), lon (Float(10,6)), map.url (Char[256])
This table will be initialized at App installation and updated regularly by querying a remote database server

One table called alert with these columns : id (serial,index), user.id (integer) display.id (integer), status (integer), meeting.time (datetime),
processing.time(datetime), rating(integer) , comments (char[256]), lat (Float(10,6)), lon (Float(10,6))

One table called user with these columns : id (serial,index), email (character[256]), first.name (character[256]), last.name (character[256]), mobile.phone (character[10])

The backend database will have the same tables as the App database.



App features
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- User authentification
When launched for the first time, the App should be able to authenticate user using open ID and google, facebook
or twitter account.
It will retrieve user email from this authentication session and create a row in the user App database. User's telephone should be retrieved on the device.
User's name and first name will be possibly entered by user on the parameters page.

- Synchronization
Once every day, the App will connect to a remote database and retrieve data that will be used to update its local database.
When connecting for the first time from a newly installed smartphone, the App will create a row on the user table of the backend server by copying its
user table row.
There will be no synchronization prior to user authentification.

- Automatic launch
The app should launch automatically when the device boots and go to background mode.
No icon should appear in the tray unless there is a featured alert

- Background mode
The App will be able to remain active in background and to alert the user with notifications

- Bluetooth usage
At app launch if Bluetooth is not active, the App should prompt the user
to request Bluetooth activation with a message like
"Bluetooth is necessary to read Beacons and avoid scanning QRCodes, do you want to activate Bluetooth on this phone ?"
If user refuses a new message should be displayed like
"Bluetooth is inactive, you will have to use menu/Scan QRCode"
If user accepts then the app should open parameter related Bluetooth configuration app on the device

- GPS usage
At App launch if GPS is not active,the App should prompt the user to request GPS activation with a message like
"For security purpose we use your position to verify that beacons and QRCodes are in the correct place.
Do you want to activate GPS now ?"
If user refuses a new message should be displayed like
"GPS is inactive, we will not be able to check beacons or QRCodes locations"
If user accepts then the app should open parameter related GPS configuration app on the device

- QR Code scanning
The App should be brought to foreground by selecting the App icon.
The Scan QRCode menu item will launch a QRCode scanner. The returned code will be processed as an ID read from a Beacon

- Position awareness
Using Wifi, 3/4G and GPS sensor

- Beacon reading
When the user phone enters the emission range of a beacon, the app will have to retrieve the Beacon ID and process a verification

- ID verification
Either read from BLE Beacon or QRCode, an ID will have to be processed as follows :

* make a database request to check wether the beacon ID is in the "display" table.
If the beacon is not known then
The App will store in its local database "Alert" table the following information about the Beacon :
- Beacon ID
- Timezone, Date and time
- GPS coordinates


If beacon is part of database then the app will have to issue an alert for the user and add a row in the alert table,
inserting the datetime and display id

- Alert processing
When the user views and select the alert, the app will propose to process with a multiple choice question :
* Process the alert immediately
* Remind me in 15 minutes
* Remind me in 1 hour
* Remind me in <input> hours

If the user selects "Process the alert immediately", the app should load an alert processing web page with
a cursor to set the user rating
a text panel to enter user comment
a button labelled "OK"

When the user press the button the App should update the table "alert" with values of rating and comments and return to main screen.


Server back-end
The server back-end will be a MySQL server on a specific domain name.
It will contain user related data and up-to-date display table as well as a global alert table where all users' alert tables
When checking dayly for new display data, the App should load only those rows with attribute "creation.date"

Android iPhone jQuery / Prototype Mobile App Development MySQL

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