Eriadne - a virtual link to real world

6th April 2009 - Three men's on Route 66

2009-04-11T01:43:00.001+02:00

Adventurous trip across the U.S. states along the mithical Route 66 for Alessandro, Mariano and Checc, follow them, see their images and dream to go with them ! We support them ....
More info on http://www.rsi.ch/,
Bertoglio's Blog and Facebook

9th february 2009 - Eriadne system used to track Automated External Defibrillator

2009-02-15T10:11:00.007+01:00

9th february 2009 - Bedigliora, Switzerland.
Cryms developed an innovative device and system to alarm and track external automated defibrillators (AED) provided by Ticinocuore foundation. High scool of Bedigliora is the first place being equiped with this innovative system. As first phase Ticinocuore will deploy ten devices in Ticino Area.

23 October 2008 - Eriadne project got a mention from ATED organisation

2008-10-25T22:57:00.001+02:00

ated - ICT Ticino with Pool-IT organized Recognition ated - ICT Ticino 2008 contest with the aim to promote and enhance skills in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Ticino, Switzerland.
Within 18 submitted projects the Jury assigned a mention to Eriadne project.

More info on http://www.it-ti.ch/

Time is Life

2008-09-05T19:31:00.004+02:00

Eriadne will be present at the event "Zeit ist Leben" in Zürich for a demonstration day with the purpose of throwing the first alarm when a public defibrillator (AMD) is picked up.

During past edition of International Film festival of Locarno, Eriadne software was installed on dedicated hardware devices with the purpose to monitor two AMD devices as prototype project in collaboration with Ticino Cuore foundation and FCTSA.

30.6.2008 - Eriadne follows Claudio Vosti in a paraglider journey of 700Km

2008-07-01T00:14:00.004+02:00

30th June 2008 - Claudio Vosti take off with his paraglide from Ticino, Switzerland flying to Monaco in several legs. Eriadne will enable Claudio to communicate on his pages www.vosti.info his position and the daily path.

In bocca al lupo!

30.6.2008 - Eriadne 1.2.7 minor bugfixes

2008-06-30T01:00:00.000+02:00

With the new version we fixed a small bug that was preventing unregistered users to register not detecting correctly the email syntax.

24.5.2008 - Eriadne at Outdoor days, Riva del Garda, Italy

2008-05-24T01:00:00.000+02:00

24th May 2008 we will present Eriadne together with Giscover partner to the first ever Italian meeting dedicated entirely to outdoor sports in Riva del Garda, Italy.

Meet us, we'll wait for your coming.

How to let know your friends you are using Eriadne ?

2008-05-21T23:00:00.005+02:00

Some time people ask us how do Eriadne can be used in prevention of possible incidental events. The answer is to let know your family and friends that you are using Eriadne together with the email you used to register into Eriadne project.

To help you in this and to help us to spread Eriadne we prepared a small shop where you can find T-shirts, caps and pins.

14.5.2008 - BandAdriatica in Rotta per Otranto

2008-05-14T23:55:00.005+02:00

We are amazed every day on how people find Eriadne suitable for varied needs. This one made us smile and we would like to share with all of you the particular project of BandAdriatica with 15 musicians who are navigating the Adriatico sea with a sailing ship.
They will be using Eriadne to track the ship and let us follow them in this journey.

Some numbers:
400 miles
5 concerts
one travel
one film

We thank Ovidio Venturoso and Claudio Prima and wish all of the Band great success.......In culo alla balena !!
More info....

25.3.2008 - Eriadne 1.2.6

2008-03-27T00:47:00.003+01:00

With this update we fixed few little problems:

zoom in/out of the path with up and down joystick
move back in the time (left and right) while zoom in follow the position on path
fixed (hopefully) the erroneous replacement of the email-ID with a number

Have a nice excursions !

Swiss National TV Broadcast News 17.02.2008 - Eriadne Announcement

2008-03-06T22:57:00.001+01:00

12.2.2008 - Notified first real rescue case

2008-02-12T09:30:00.000+01:00

Is with great surprise that we received the call of Claudio, and expert paraglider, notifying us that he could get out of a trouble with Eriadne after falling in a mountain area with 60-100cm of snow.

Here some pictures, and here his story:

(in the picture a rescuer of REGA dropped with helicopter)

Sono caduto alle 14:00 e dopo aver telefonato a mia moglie e a 2 miei amici che conoscevano la zona, avevano già visto il mio tracciato su Eriadne e sapevano dove ero.
Alle 15:05 ho tolto il Parapendio dal Larice e comunicato con cellulare che partivo a piedi, ma non sapevo ancora se risalire o scendere.

Durante il cammino verso il fondo Valle alle 15:50 non ricevevo più il segnale GSM, non potevo vedere quanto segnale rimaneva perché avevo messo il telefono e il ricevitore GPS nella tasca superiore della mia tuta in quanto a volte sprofondavo fino alla vita.

Dopo 2h e 30 di cammino con il mi sacco da 18 Kg ero stanco e fradicio, la notte si avvicinava (17:33) ed ho deciso di guardare se avevo il segnale, avendo un piccolo segnale che veniva e andava ho mandato le coordinate con Eriadne a mia moglie e di chiamare l'elicottero alle 17:56.

La REGA è arrivata alle 18:45 e mi hanno prelevato con il verricello.

Chiesto poi alla Rega se erano giuste le coordinate per trovarmi, mi hanno risposto che erano giuste e che non hanno avuto problemi per trovarmi (valle Stretta e boschiva)

Many thanks to Claudio.

Eriadne 1.2.5 base feature video explained

2008-02-09T12:55:00.000+01:00

Presenting Eriadne with few words on a newspaper or on official website is different and because of new technologies involved it has less impact than than showing it with a real phone. So we made this little video that shows almost all you can do with Eriadne on your mobile and trough www.eriadne.org. (Since YouTube video may lack of quality you may download better quality AVI file of about 40Mb)

Sit down and enjoy !

Eriadne 1.2.5 - Geotagging, zoming, timebrowsing and more

2008-01-29T00:06:00.000+01:00

Eriadne is time by time growing in features mobile side and server side. The new version comes with:

Geotagging and time-browsing
At any point of your path you can add a comment and/or some tags to categorize your Point of Interest or excursion jurnal. As result, when the path is sent to the server, you may find red squared labels indicating that a comment can be read.
A comment may be added with '5' key on your mobile keyboard or clicking with your mobile joystick.
You may review comments or add comments in past points by navigating backwards or forward in the path using '4' and '6' keys, respectively LEFT and RIGHT of the joystick.

Zooming and scaling
Making long excursions we realized that after a while the path became only a pile of red spots and details hidden by automatic zooming.
With '2' or '8' keys or UP and DOWN of the joystick you may zoom into current location and see more details. To give you a way to compare to the reality we added an automatic scale indicator up-left of the screen.

Online Map legend
Information to show on the dynamic map grow more and more, we need to clarify a bit:

Starting point of the excursion
Time and coordinates indicator (does not mean the mobile has sent something)
Last position that the user sent to the server

Up to now it's all folks. Stay tuned, new interesting features coming soon! if you have wishes just share with us !

Successful Rescue exercise for Eriadne

2008-01-13T23:13:00.000+01:00

13.01.2008 Switzerland - Eriadne has been used to start a rescue exercise with Swiss Alpine Rescue groups, REGA helicopter support and SAC-CAS. The execise successfully succeeded in a couple of hours.

The rescue teams judged the system innovative in the mountain incident preventions, drastically improves the search efficacy and helps in better preparing the intervention.

Here you can find some specific moments of the day.

and the rescue path:

Eriadne 1.2.3 RC1

2007-12-19T03:35:00.000+01:00

Dear Frieds,
We could not let you without a X-Mas present.
Thanks to Paolo Attivissimo we could test Eriadne on a SonyEricsson P1i and fix some user interface problems that made a bit hard to find some buttons (Exit, Send Path, etc).
The new version come also with some bugfix and a big enhancement in reducing the amount of bytes sent over the air when sending a path.

Have a nice excursions!

Eriadne Team wishes you merry X-Mas and Happy 2008

2007-12-18T00:49:00.000+01:00

Who can make better GPS X-Mas tree than this below, please, send us the link :-)

With the current version (1.2.2) we are getting data from different models of mobiles and consider them as certified to be able to run Eriadne and be able to communicate the position.
Integrated GPS: Nokia N95, 6110 Navigator(+AGPS)
External Bluetooth GPS:
Nokia N93, N80, N73, E70, E61, E50, 6230, 6120c, 5500, 3250
SonyEricsson P1i*, W810i, K750i, V600i

Eriadne 1.2.2

2007-12-04T01:52:00.000+01:00

With this update version we fixed some menues interaction problems on SonyEricsson and enhanced server communication.

Eriadne 1.2.1 Update

2007-11-29T00:12:00.000+01:00

Dear Eriadne user,
we have to inform that 1.2.0 version contains a bug that prevent the sending of full path to the server.

We welcome you to download the updated version 1.2.1 .

Thank You and have great excursions !

Eriadne Team

27.11.2007 - Eriadne 1.2.0 (beta)

2007-11-27T02:07:00.000+01:00

New version of Eriadne presents some new features:

Supporting more mobile phones: so far Eriadne was supported mainly by Nokia models, with this new version Eriadne connects directly Bluetooth GPS devices. If your phone does not give the expected results please write a comment on this post including your model and we'll find solution.
Destination path: it's possible to set target coordinates in CH1903 (maps Swiss) or WGS84 and on the screen will display a green arrow indicating the direction of the destination (compared to the sense of march) and the remaining distance.
GEOCaching: You can send your position with an SMS directly to another person who has Eriadne, the other person will be able to set it as the destination and reach you with ease.
Geomagnetic compass: If your GPS device has the geomagnetic compass sensor on the screen will display the north permanently and continuously, even in the absence of the GPS signal.

Presenting vosti.info

2007-11-21T15:45:00.000+01:00

Today we would like to present a big fan of Eriadne's system.

Claudio is an expert paraglider and he is using Eriadne to track live the flights through his web site www.vosti.info .

Thank you Claudio for all usefull feedbacks !

Telemobility 2007

2007-11-15T12:35:00.000+01:00

Today we are attending the Telemobility Forum to compare Eriadne to other similar solutions, developers or bloggers. The result is pretty surprising, we didn't found equal services, but similar like vehicle GPS tracking. This make us proud to continue on this project with more resources.

Within the forum we beneficed of new ideas on how to make Eriadne evolve in a very interesting way by maintaining the original purpose.

Eriadne will become more social by letting the mobile user to share (emotionally, culturally, touristically, gartronomically, etc.) interesting places directly to other mobile users.

We had an interesting speech with Alberto D'Ottavi which gave us interesting points of view.

Eriadne 1.1.0

2007-11-09T09:06:00.000+01:00

With the 1.1.0 edition we redesigned Eriadne internally tasks for the upcoming features and fixed some annoying bugs.

Upcoming features:
* we are hardly working on interfacing Bluetooth GPS devices for the mobiles that doesn't support the Location API JSR-179, however this will require the device to support at least Bluetooth API JSR-82.
* geocatching feature! You'll be able to send, with a simple SMS, your position to another Eriadne's user and let him reach you at that given position.

We would like to implement some other useful features and remove all annoying confirmation requests for obvious actions (like allow the application to get the GPS position, send the path, start on upcoming friend Eriadne's SMS), but it will require us to SIGN the application.
Unfortunately SIGNing an application cost money (about 1000$ per year) and this is killing for a free application model.

If you would like to help us keep Eriadne free you can by making a donation and we will assure new features to be always free.

Thank You a lot!

Joined eTourCamp

2007-11-03T13:57:00.000+01:00

We finally joined eTourCamp for first public presentation.

Downloadable GoogleMaps

2007-10-30T02:06:00.001+01:00

With this new feature it will be possible to download KML files viewable on Google Heart.

You may download the path in 2D mode clamped on the ground for normal excursions or 3D mode for flying sports like the example.

:-) Welcome on board !

Eriadne 1.0.5

2007-10-26T00:25:00.000+02:00

With new version we have:
- add: compass on screen. The compass require few meters of movement to properly work
- add: accuracy light gray radius. The gray circle shows accuracy bounds given by GPS
- fixed: distance was not reset on path reset
- fixes: email IDs was treated in case sensitive mode making difficult to retrieve maps online.

Il Pollicino Informatico

2007-10-23T23:43:00.000+02:00

Ticino7
dedicated the cover, the editorial and the (italian) center article to the topic of the privacy in relationship with the new technologies introducing Eriadne as positive example.

14th October - The Gianetti Day

2007-10-12T15:05:00.000+02:00

We demonstrated Eriadne at the open-bicycle-ride Gianetti Day.

3rd November - Eriadne presented @ eTourCamp Lugano

2007-10-10T16:55:00.000+02:00

We will be presenting Eriadne at eTourCamp the 3rd November 2007.

We wait for your presence !

Update: we should present at 15:30

Eriadne 1.0.3

2007-10-06T02:57:00.000+02:00

With today update and thanking Luca Silvanti we made following changes.
On Eriadne:
- switched X and Y coordinate labels
- added the possibility to reset the path for initial imprecision or privacy protection of start point
- added the possibility to tune the height offset
- functions number grows -> reorganized menus
On Web:
- added few other tested and supported mobile models

Next comming:
- to support more mobile models (mainly of SonyEricsson family) we are bypassing JSR-179 to directly read location data from Bluetooth GPS device.

Looking forward on your comments.

New features

2007-10-02T01:51:00.000+02:00

I'm starting this blog by posting new features since very first version of Eriadne:

excursion resume on application start (in case the application quit or saving battery on excursions stops)
added height curve
added details on screen: latitude, longitude, vertical and horizontal precision (+/- meters), path lenght in meters, speed (if available)
automatic Path sending every 5/15/30/60 minutes

Enjoy!