Contextual API

Rich, meaningful information about the real-world in real-time on a human scale.

What is the context at a place?

Query the context at a place which consists of one or more sensors. Returns a list of all devices currently detected by those sensors, including links to additional information about each.

Live example:   /contextat/directory/reelyactive

What is the context near a person or product?

Query the context near a person or product which is defined by a transmitting device. Returns a list of all devices currently detected by the sensors near the person or product, including links to additional information about each.

Live example:   /contextnear/transmitter/1005ecab005e

Real-time location API

Anonymous detection and location of wireless devices in real-time on a human scale.

What is at a receiver?

Query the transmitting devices currently detected within range of a single sensor. Returns a list of devices including the information contained within their wireless transmissions.

Live example:   /whatat/receiver/001bc50940810013

Where is a transmitter?

Query the current transmission of a device and the sensors in range. Returns the information contained within the wireless transmission as well as the list of sensors which decoded the transmission.

Live example:   /whereis/transmitter/1005ecab005e

What is near a transmitter?

Query what is near a transmitting device. Returns a list of all devices currently detected by the sensors near the transmitter.

Live example:   /whatnear/transmitter/1005ecab005e

Association API

Associate device identifiers with rich, meaningful information via a URL, tags or a directory.

Create associations for a person, product or place.

Associate a person, product or place's device identifier with a URL or tags. Places can additional be associated with a hierarchical directory. Associations can be queried (GET), created/updated (PUT) and removed (DELETE).

See the description below for URLs, tags and directories.

URL

Uniform Resource Locator which specifies the link to information about the person, product or place in the form of JSON-LD.

URLs and JSON-LD link people, products and places in a standard, machine-readable way.

Tags

One or more strings (words) which classify the person, product or place.

Tags enable powerful contextat and contextnear queries.

Directory

Hierarchical structure which specifies the semantic location of a place, for example reelyactive:office:lounge

Directories enable powerful contextat queries.

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