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Technology has transformed the mobile phone as a big medium for communication and offered a pool of services to the subscriber. Among those services, Location Based Services (LBS) is prominent to get services based on current geographic location. The services include right from information to entertainment and the services offered by LBS are highly dynamic because its access pattern is different from...
When disasters occurs, cellular network might be down and cannot serve subscribers anymore. On the other hand, many victims trapped in a wreckage might still have access to their mobile phone. An OpenBTS-based cellular network has been long before known as an ideal solution to rapidly deploy emergency GSM cellular network in situation after disaster. We propose to deploy a mobile OpenBTS along with...
In this paper, we present TeleEye, a real time geographic information inquiring system based on the mobile crowd sourcing. The TeleEye system supports novel information inquiring services beyond traditional geospatial information system by providing a real time information, such as if a tennis court is now occupied. This paper summarizes the design, the architecture, and the prototype of the TeleEye...
Due to the heterogeneity involved in smart interconnected devices, cellular applications, and surrounding (GPS-aware) environments there is a need to develop a realistic approach to track mobile assets. Current tracking systems are costly and inefficient over wireless data transmission systems where cost is based on the rate of data being sent. Our aim is to develop an efficient and improved geographical...
The use of mobile devices has become a part of our daily routine. Recently, mobile devices like mobile phones or portable digital displays (PDAs) are equipped with global positioning system (GPS) receptors that allow us to get the device's geographic position in real time. Location Based Services (LBS) are regarded as a key feature of many future mobile applications. GPS serves well for most outdoor...
In recent years, the Location Based Services (LBS) have grown rapidly. It is important for mobile service operators to provide users with high quality of services. Raising efficiency is one of the frequently discussed issues in service management. Although numerous researches were contributed to this topic, there are still some imperfections in region detection of LBS that make most of LBS inefficient...
Hajj, an annual Muslim pilgrimage, is one of the pillars of Islam and every able Muslim must perform this act at least once in their lifetime. During the pilgrimage, millions of Muslims from all over the world congregate for religious rituals in Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The cases of missing Hajj pilgrims are not uncommon and although several tracking and navigation devices have been introduced,...
This document provides detail on the implementation of a location awareness system which gives the user's current location, sends this location using SMS (Short Message Service) plus sharing location with friends and family and view them on Google maps. Users can also take benefit of this application in emergency situations by using emergency feature of this application. To get the location coordinates,...
This article describes an environment based on the user's physical location to tell interactive stories on mobile devices. First, the technology to physically locate the user is presented. Thence the project, called MPISTE, is put into context with related projects. The paper continues with the description of the project and its design as part of a project to develop an affective virtual guide. The...
The proliferation and rapid development of telecommunication and wireless computing have created new capabilities that can be utilized by both businesses and individuals. Location-based commerce/service (LBS), one of the mobile and wireless commerce applications, is an electronic transaction targeted to individuals in specific locations at specific times. This paper aims at presenting the first of...
Image processing is a powerful technology that can be used to analyze an image for many useful purposes. However, software like this is often out of the typical user's reach, ilmage directly confronts this problem. The ilmage application takes the sophisticated technologies of image analysis and identification based on MPEG-7 image feature tools and makes them readily available on the go. With the...
This paper explores the suitability and effectiveness of employing cell phones for real-time data collection and tracking on-board automobiles. We present a novel application that runs in a commercially available GPS-enabled cell phone to continuously log a vehicle's driving and engine performance and geocode the collected data at regular intervals. Data are reported to a central server in real-time,...
This paper presents a mobile application based on providing location based services (LBS) using Global Positioning System (GPS) as a location provider. The main objective of this work is to design and implement a client server system that helps users to locate their family members and receive alerts when friends are nearby. The mobile application was implemented using J2ME where the most recent APIs...
In this paper we introduce the mobile yellow pages with user interest and location sensing ensemble (MyPULSE) system, an easy to use, platform-independent mobile application which enables a user to see image and video-based advertisements, get directions and obtain other important information about products and services offered by local businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, shops, taxicabs, etc...
Tagciti is a novel location-aware and socially-relevant information creating and discovering service for mobile users. Instead of depending on commercially created location related information, Tagciti provides users the necessary means to become part of the information creation process. It enables the creation of dynamic, up to date, and socially-relevant shared information. Also, it provides an...
A travel book salesman needs current information that leads to the development of an information system about costumers, supplies, orders and the books themselves. Such scenario demands maximum mobility and rapid information retrieval that points to a mobile application. The paper presents an application developed for local and remote use, called InHand, that is context-aware, presenting information...
Mobile technology provides many benefits to education. In this paper we describe the architecture of a system that allows people to search and retrieve information about its location and activities in a campus, knowing about the resources available on its surroundings, including buildings, classes, events and people.
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