Mobile App Uses Aruba Beacons and Meridian App
Platform to Give Students, Faculty and Visitors Turn-by-Turn
Navigation and Collaborative Content for the OU Libraries
System
Aruba Networks, an HP company, (NYSE:HPQ) today announced that
the University of Oklahoma (OU) has deployed Aruba Beacons and the
Aruba Meridian Mobile App Platform to deliver a new mobile app that
helps students, faculty and visitors navigate the OU Libraries,
exhibits and other Norman Campus landmarks. The OU NavApp provides
turn-by-turn directions and location-based and educational content
for more than one million visits annually.
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Based on Aruba's Meridian Mobile App
Platform, the OU NavApp gives students, faculty and visitors access
to collaborative content for the OU Libraries system. (Photo:
Business Wire)
Following a successful proof of concept in the library’s Peggy
V. Helmerich Collaborative Learning Center – a unique and popular
technology space OU created – the University decided to expand its
deployment to its entire seven-floor, 400,000 square foot OU
Libraries system as well as other highly-visited attractions on
campus including The National Weather Center, Fred Jones Museum and
Sam Noble Natural History Museum.
The OU Libraries is the largest research library in the state of
Oklahoma, has been featured in U.S. News & World Report as one
of the most beautiful, historic campus libraries in the country and
is renowned for its rich portfolio of historical books and special
history of science collections. In addition to providing
traditional library services to students and faculty, OU’s Bizzell
Memorial Library is the site of a Galileo’s World exhibit that
begins August 2015 and runs through 2016. The OU Bizzell Library
was chosen to host this exhibit, as it possesses a complete and
rare set of first edition Galileo publications from 16th century
Italy, some of which even contain Galileo’s own handwriting in the
margins.
With its extensive collections including 17,000 linear feet of
manuscripts and archives, more than one million photographs and
more than a million maps, as well as its unique collaborative
learning center, the OU Libraries is a popular destination for
students, faculty and visitors. However, as Matthew Cook, Emerging
Technologies Librarian for OU explained, it can be complicated to
navigate.
“It's an intimidating building, especially for first-time users,
which include many of our incoming freshmen, and it’s a bit
obscure. The resources and services are not immediately apparent
when you walk in the front door,” Cook said. “With the beacons and
mobile app, we can now leverage the technology that’s already in
our freshmen’s pockets – their mobile devices – to combine the
offline and online experience and guide them between resources.
Essentially, these solutions let us tap into and better serve the
needs of this growing #GenMobile generation of user.”
OU deployed Aruba Beacons and used the Meridian Mobile App
Platform to design their interactive, feature-rich NavApp, which is
available for both Android and iOS. Cook explained that when users
who have downloaded the app enter the OU Libraries system, their
experience is truly transformed. The app is organized by type of
user – student, faculty or visitor – so that users can quickly and
easily find the information and resources most relevant to
them.
The app provides a map and turn-by-turn navigation for every
publicly accessible area along with all of the physical resources,
so users can easily find their way through the buildings and locate
resources, gallery exhibits, restrooms and elevators. Cook noted
that OU relies on the accessibility features built into the
Meridian Mobile App Platform so they can provide users with
disabilities the easiest route to elevators, for example, or during
a storm, guide students using the library to the safest location.
Said Cook, “Beyond the obvious convenience and efficiency the app
brings our users, there’s a safety and security element as
well.”
“We have the content in place and the navigation is working
beautifully,” said Cook. “Now we need to monitor the number of
users downloading the app to determine how successful it is,
ultimately, and how much further we can expand the deployment.”
Click here for a video of the OU Libraries NavApp in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTpuYP1of1I
About Aruba Networks, an HP company
Aruba Networks, an HP company, is a leading provider of
next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise.
The company designs and delivers Mobility-Defined Networks that
empower IT departments and #GenMobile, a new generation of
tech-savvy users who rely on their mobile devices for every aspect
of work and personal communication. To create a mobility experience
that #GenMobile and IT can rely upon, Aruba Mobility-Defined
Networks™ automate infrastructure-wide performance optimization and
trigger security actions that used to require manual IT
intervention. The results are dramatically improved productivity
and lower operational costs.
To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com. For
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