People want to know where the bus is.

Transit authority wants to promote ridership.

We crowdsource bus location info with an app that riders run "in the background" only when near a bus.

Only hardware needed: a low-power bluetooth beacon, size of a quarter and costing $10

One of these sits on each bus- can stick on with a magnet. The battery lasts 3 years between changes. We have a cellphone app which, when called up, shows the location of the buses.

When the app not running, the rider's phone still listens for bluetooth beacons, and when a bus is nearby, it starts a background process that sends the bus location observation into our database. And that updates the public's information.

We're working with the City of New Haven on a trial.

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