SPN interviews Dave Andersen of Eelios
SPN recently had the opportunity to interview Eelios, a spinoff of 21CSI, at their office located in the Scott Technology Center.
Eelios is leveraging, and taking to the commercial market, "intelligent" decision support software technology that 21CSI has developed and fielded for use in a variety of government programs. Through the adaptation of 21CSI's technology, Eelios is bringing to market customizable applications for individual mobile/wireless and business enterprise customers with an initial focus on intelligent personal weather monitoring and alerting....all in all, some really cool apps for the iPhone and more!
Eelios' initial commercial application, known as "Intelli-Weather," provides real-time automated and personalized weather reports along with current and forecast weather alerts tailored for multiple pin-point locations that the user selects, instead of broad generalizations for a wide geographic area. The product also links with the user's calendar, identifying which appointments or travel plans may be impacted by weather conditions, and automatically making suggested changes such as an alternative venue for an afternoon golf game or a different travel route.
Location-based "find me-follow me" tracking provides accurate up-to-the minute reports so that mobile users will always receive information that is relevant to their current location, without the need for manually entering location updates.
For more information on Dave Andersen & his team's work through Eelios, Intelli-Weather and other technologies, check out www.eeliosinc.com.
COMMENTS
Really good interview! The location based stuff is interesting. There is a lot that can be down with the GPS system in the iphone and I am always interested in hearing what other people are doing with it.
Thanks for your comment Robert. Indeed LBS-oriented apps and iPhone were made for each other and present all kinds of interesting possibilities. Hope we can do it justice - I'm confident we will.
Need to make a correction here vs what's in the interview: We've slid our planned launch a few months to the right (originally planned for early April) to give us time to incorporate the new iPhone 3.0 OS.
Shortly after this interview was done Apple released the iPhone 3.0 OS beta to developers, and it was immediately obvious that 3.0 provides significant capability and code efficiency/performance advantages over 2.2. Enough so that we decided it worth the delay to launch in 3.0 vs 2.2.
So, please stay tuned!
Thanks for the update Dave! Looking forward to the new 3.0 features for sure! Keep us posted!
Also, its worth mentioning that 21CSI & Eelios were kind enough to be sponsors of the BIG Omaha Conference. If you're coming to the event, you're bound to run into them. Say hi!
That's a smart move Dave. There is some interesting new "features" that seem to be coming to the iphone with 3.0 in the voice area. Not sure if it will actually be released with 3.0 or sometime after that, but the code shows a new framework for working with voice controls. So that should be interesting to follow.
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