Title: ShoppingMate, a location- and context- aware service for assisting consumers during their shopping time.
Fund: CAPACITIES – Research for the benefit of SMEs
Description:
ShoppingMate’s main objective was to develop an innovative digital shopping system that transforms mobile phones into highly interactive personal shopping assistants for consumer’s everyday lives in a way that combines the advantages of e-shopping and traditional shopping.
Link Technologies was the coordinator of the project, developed cutting-edge technologies and location-based services, integrated the developed systems and created a platform that can address the spontaneous mobile user shopping requests by identifying stores in a specific shopping area that match the mobile user’s specifications for a purchase.
Partnership:
- LINK TECHNOLOGIES S.A. (GR)
- Mobics Telecommunication and Consulting Services Ltd (GR)
- Fonella Oy (FIN)
- VTT Technical Research Centre (FIN)
- Novasys S.A. (CH)
- Centre Suisse d' Electronique et de Microtechnique (CH)
- Neos Srl- Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (DE)
- Municipality of Athens Development Agency (GR)
Duration: 24 months
Financing:
Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project