The Canadian Open Data Summit (CODS) is an annual event where the most pressing challenges facing the open data and open government communities are addressed on a national scale. The CODS 2017 was hosted in Edmonton, Alberta, from June 12, 2017 to June 14, 2017 by the City of Edmonton and focused on open data analytics, partnerships and crowdsourcing.
Event organizers were interested in demonstrating the possibilities of Bluetooth beacon technologies for providing location awareness to mobile apps. Consequently, Dattivo was engaged to create a proof-of-concept to demonstrate the capabilities of beacons for the conference.