Method of using smartphones to determine a use of one or more locations and at least one criteria of the one or more locations
A method for determining a use of one or more locations and at least one criteria of the one or more locations using smartphones, including receiving, via a wireless network, a plurality of event data streams at different spatio-temporal resolutions from a plurality of mobile devices (e.g., at least one of the smartphones) associated with a plurality of entities, the plurality of event data streams including a plurality of unique mobile identifiers, location pings, and access pings of the plurality of mobile devices.
1. A method for determining a use of one or more locations and at least one criteria of the one or more locations using smartphones, comprising:
receiving, by a server via a wireless network, a plurality of event data streams at different spatio-temporal resolutions from a plurality of mobile devices associated with a plurality of entities, the mobile devices comprising at least one of the smartphones, the plurality of event data streams including a plurality of unique mobile identifiers, location pings, and access pings of the plurality of mobile devices;
verifying, by the server, the plurality of event data streams by determining whether the plurality of unique mobile identifiers are present within a database;
identifying, by the server, one or more locations associated with each of the plurality of event data streams based on the location pings and the access pings included in the plurality of event data streams, the one or more locations including a plurality of static criterias and a plurality of dynamic criterias;
determining, by the server, a spatial activity of each of the plurality of entities temporally associated with the one or more locations and criterias of at least one entity visiting the one or more locations using a global geo-spatial model to derive at least one contextual event that affects the at least one criteria of the one or more locations;
generating, by the server, at least one data driven model of the at least one criteria based on the spatial activity of each of the plurality of entities temporally associated with the one or more locations; and
determining, by the server, the use of the one or more locations and the at least one criteria of the one or more locations based on the plurality of event data streams using the at least one data driven model and the at least one contextual event.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the verifying, by the server, the plurality of event data streams comprises verifying a time dimension associated with the one or more of the plurality of event data streams by analyzing a number of concurrent data event streams from a single entity for a selected time; and filtering concurrent data event streams from the single entity for the selected time.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of static criterias comprise at least one of a location, a latitude, a longitude, an altitude, a building shape, or a mailbox number, wherein the plurality of dynamic criterias comprise at least one of a frequency of traffic, proximity of starting points of guests, and a location of the starting points of the guests.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of static criterias comprise at least one of a location, a latitude, a longitude, an altitude, a building shape, or a mailbox number, wherein the plurality of dynamic criterias comprise at least one of a nature of the starting points of the guests and a stay time at a different time of a day.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of static criterias comprise at least one of a location, a latitude, a longitude, an altitude, a building shape, or a mailbox number, wherein the plurality of dynamic criterias comprise at least one of a previous top locations and next top locations, other places, and open spaces.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: centralizing a nature of the one or more locations by decollecting the one or more locations with respect to one or more spatial scales, wherein the one or more locations range from a point to a shape.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: centralizing a nature of the one or more locations by collecting the one or more locations with respect to one or more spatial scales, wherein the one or more locations range from a point to a shape.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: running the at least one data driven model of the at least one criteria of the one or more locations on a basis and updating at least one metric of the at least one criteria of the one or more locations for different time scales, wherein the different time scales comprise at least one day.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of event data streams further include non-location data may comprising at least one of IP information, location pings, access pings, and subscriber data.
10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining the use of the one or more locations and the at least one criteria of the one or more locations in response to incoming queries with the one or more locations and spatial regions that are not in the one or more locations that are identified.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one data driven model of the at least one criteria of the one or more locations comprises a competitive analysis model.
12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one data driven model of the at least one criteria of the one or more locations comprises a guest count model.
13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one data driven model of the at least one criteria of the one or more locations comprises a linger time determination model.
14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one data driven model of the at least one criteria of the one or more locations comprises a catchment area determination model.
15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one data driven model of the at least one criteria of the one or more locations comprises a places analysis model.
16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one data driven model of the at least one criteria of the one or more locations comprises a place pre-post credit model.
17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises re-estimating the at least one criteria of the one or more locations when the plurality of event data streams determine a different value for the at least one criteria of the one or more locations using the at least one data driven model.
18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising: extrapolating the spatial data with census data.
19. The method of claim 17 , further comprising: interpolating the spatial data with the census data before downstream processing.
20. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: filtering and standardizing the plurality of event data streams into a common representational format before downstream processing.