Task:

Task:

Project to add a QR barcode scanning and search feature into an existing iPhone application.

Solution:

The goal of the project is an application that gives users easier access to the community resources using their Blackberry phones.

We have developed a native Blackberry application for both non-touch and touch devices that allow users with a simple and convenient interface to a social network based on an Elgg framework. Users can send ad receives messages, create photo albums, groups of user’s, discussions, etc. The web service API was also created to provide the communication between client application and Elgg server through HTTP.

Client:  www.tagology.net

Task:

To build a platform for Tagology, a language based on logos and binary code. It required a website where users view, search, add and change Tagology tags in an iPhone application intended for tag decoding.

Solution:

NTR Lab created an ASP.NET website that allows the user to:

• Learn about Tagology principles;
• Register for free;
• Create tags in different categories in visual editor and assign meaning to them;
• Modify tags in visual editor;
• Comment on tags;
• Receive notification emails from the site;
• Search tags by meaning or image.

The iPhone application decodes tags generated on the site. The camera runs in video mode and is constantly extracting images, finding and decoding available tags. The user simply points at the tag and waits until it is recognized. The application also:

• displays tag meaning immediately after decoding; meanings are taken from either a local database or the server;
• selects preferred languages (primary and secondary) from the list of languages supported; and
• saves all decoded tag histories and meanings in the selected language.

iPhone application is available on App Store.

Technologies: ASP.NET, MS SQL, C#, iPhone, C++, Objective-C, SQLite, Web service, SOAP

www.poido.com
POIdo is NTR Lab’s internal startup.
 

POIdo is a pay-per-action location-based advertising (LBA) platform providing ads targeted to users’ precise location, context and behavior in applications on mobile phones and internet sites.
POIdo launched in Moscow on March 16, 2010.
Winner of the StartupPoint contest at the Russian Internet Forum 2010.

Description:
POIdo is the world’s first LBA platform that creates a competitive marketplace where the price of advertising is determined by the market (advertisers compete for ad visibility).
POIdo is the world’s first LBA platform where virtual billboards can be placed at optimal locations, not just the business location. The user sees the ad message within the application in use when approaching a virtual billboard or as a result of searching for a nearby address.
POIdo provides API for both advertisers and publishers, allowing development of innovative applications with location-aware monetization/advertising built in.

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Task: Develop a foreign language learning portal

Solution:
An educational multilingual website with user-generated content.
The system is based on expanding active vocabulary through word cards, educational videos, audios, games and tests. It includes a list of individual teachers and language classes.

Technologies: CMS Bitrix, flash, PHP, MySQL
 

Task: To develop a web component that generates a QRCode (two-dimensional bar code) and an Android component that recognizes the codes on devices and passes information using soap calls to the server

Solution: Developed an Android application that reads QR Code, decrypts the information and passes it to the web service in real-time using a basic ASP.NET test page. The test page requests data and generates a QR Code, in which the information is encrypted. The Android application reads the QR Code, decrypts and validates the information, then uploads it to the web. The Android application has a password protected setup option for administrators that allows them to configure the phone for specific QR code scanning. The app includes statistics showing the activity of QR Code uploaded to the web and the total of QR Codes scanned by terminals and other details.

Technologies: Google Android, ASP.NET, SOAP Web Services, MS SQL Server 2008, C#, Java

Customer testimonial: "NTR Lab is the best provider we found in Elance. We will definitely work with them on our next projects".

Client: SafeShopper

Task: SafeShopper is an application to view the Gluten allergy information of food products by scanning their EAN-13 barcode. The decoded barcode is passed to a web service that determines whether the product is safe or not safe.

Solution:
Develop an application that retrieves food product information by EAN 13 (EPC) barcode. The client runs on mobile phones and decodes the barcodes using the video mode. The user scans the barcode for a few seconds while the image is extracted and decodes the EAN-13 barcode. Product information is retrieved via web request to the central SafeShopper database and compared to the profile of the user. The application has a customized user-friendly GUI and the product information screen adjusts automatically to fit the information to the device screen.

Technologies: Symbian S60 3^rd edition FP1 and FP2, Symbian S60 5^th edition, C++, REST Web Services

Client: www.mobiubiq.org

Task:
To provide a system that allows users to scan barcodes and provide access to object-based services, i.e. perform actions with the recognized object, such as viewing information, opening a website, blogging, saving the barcode as a bookmark, etc.

Solution:
Develop an application that enables services based on the recognized QR barcodes and EAN 13 (EPC) barcodes on the phone.

The client runs on mobile phones and decodes barcodes. The camera runs in video mode to extract the image to decode either a QR barcode or an EAN-13 barcode when available.

The user need only point at the barcode and wait until it is recognized; upon recognition a request is sent to the service directory with the string of the decoded barcode. The service directory returns data for the object and a list of relevant services.
The application has a customized, user-friendly GUI.

Technologies: Symbian S60 3rd edition FP1 and FP2, Symbian s60 5th edition, C++, Web service, iPhone, Objective-C, Twitter API
 

Task:
This tool is intended for a dating agent. It maintains a database of clients and monitors potential matches for each client on various dating websites.

Functionality:
• Maintain client database; activate or deactivate clients;
• Maintain database of to-be-monitored websites;
• Maintain response database: each response has text and color;
• Monitor websites for each client by providing client ID markers on the profile’s web page;
• Track whether a client’s response was answered (status) and remove if necessary;
• Display response (status) on the client’s page;
• Switch quickly between clients.
The tool is a Mozilla FireFox extension that stores all required data in the local SQLite database.

Technologies: Mozilla XUL, JavaScript, SQLite.