Information Systems: AURA
Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 7:37PM 
AURA is an augmented reality (AR) viewer that provides visual feedback and alerts about objects of interest in a real world environment.
Challenge: Currently, field data collection & reporting capabilities are rudimentary, forms based, one-way data submission tools. Current devices have no capabilities for the following features: peer-level information exchange, geospatial initiation for event/POI creation, and geospatial historical orientation for user. Data collection is a commodity. This next generation tool must facilitate success at all points on the knowledge creation/consumption spectrum.
Innovation Delivered: AURA provides mobile situational awareness and can be used as a training and briefing tool. Using off the shelf smartphones such as iPhones and Androids, AURA is a private app that can GPS tag and navigate to objects of interest. Real-time push notifications and alerts and microblog team communication help to provide mobile situational awareness. Key benefits include the identification of nearby objects of interest using a 360° real-time AR experience.
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