Wireless product-broadcast system

Abstract

Many businesses lack advertising capacity for their products mostly because of high advertisement market rates offered by the industry players. For those who can afford newspaper and electronic media advertisement, they would also want to have day to day contact with customers. This research project explores a location based advertisement medium that can reach clients on their mobile phones within a radius of between 100 meters to 150 meters, the system will rely on Wi-Fi Direct, a peer-to-peer wireless standard that allows devices like some mobile phones (such as iPhones, Android phones) to communicate directly with each other rather than through a shared access point like a cell phone tower. Once a client’s phone establishes connection with a server device hosting the adverts within the business premises, then it can load the adverts on demand. Wi-Fi direct works more like blue tooth but covers a much wider range of approximately between 100 meters to 150. The above contribution was demonstrated by a prototype android application utilizing Wi-Fi direct to drill through sample advertisement data hosted on an android phone (Jelly Bean) acting as the server device