XTD Ltd’s Contact Light launches new campus tech platform OTTO with Curtin University

Contact Light, the innovation division of ASX-listed digital out-of-home company XTD Ltd, has launched its first commercial enterprise.

Working with Curtin University, Contact Light has released OTTO, a smartphone app enabling intra-campus transport tracking, wayfinding and a custom campus map with levels of detail not seen in Google or Apple Maps. Activating as part of Curtin’s annual Orientation Week program, the new app will include extended capabilities such as meeting point sharing, live shuttle bus tracking, messaging and campus security integration. The app is available for iPhone and will be available for Android in the coming weeks.

Graham Arndt, Director of Operations and Maintenance at Curtin University, said deploying OTTO across the university’s campus was a major step forward.

“OTTO brings a new dimension to welcoming students and visitors to Curtin. It is easy for people to use and means that planning to arrive at specific points and times on campus is simple and effective,” said Arndt.

Contact Light is also in discussions with several other tertiary education institutions in Australia and abroad, targeting a broad-scale roll out of the app in the 2016 student year.

Contact Light CEO Mike Boyd, formerly a digital business executive within the STW Group, said the new business had moved quickly to product launch to capitalise on numerous opportunities in app-based communications capabilities in community environments such as education campuses, but looking more broadly towards personal safety, messaging and transactions.

XTD is also the owner and operator of the world’s first cross track digital media and information system designed for the transit networks of major global cities.