Case Study: Skyhook enhances location-based services with QArea

Development services for Skyhook

Skyhook, a U.S.-based travel and hospitality technology company, turned to QArea to support a series of location-based projects built around its Skyhook Wireless WPS platform and MyLoki service. The challenge was to deliver fast, accurate Wi‑Fi-based location services across web, mobile, Android, iPhone, and desktop environments, while also creating a developer-facing website for JavaScript API registration and promotion.

QArea implemented MyLoki from scratch on Symfony, redesigned and integrated Loki.com, and added key features including Google Maps, Facebook, FireEagle, Twitter, RSS, badges, and Ajax-based location updates shared across apps. QArea also delivered the Skyhook location logger, LocalFaves modules, and internal testing in C#/Silverlight to ensure quality. The result was a production-ready platform with strong business impact, including an 87% satisfaction rate, 57% mobile app conversion, and a 7% decrease in bounce rate.

Skyhook

Nick Brachet

Chief Technology Officer