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Public transport system is widely used in large cities for commuting on a daily basis. People use buses to go to their workplaces. But, lack of proper information about the bus arrival time at bus stops often leads to long waiting times at bus stops. Here, some methodologies to predict the bus arrival time and convey this information to passengers are discussed and analyzed. Technology based on GPS-GSM...
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,...
“Technology does not drive change, it enables change.” The primary purpose of Technology is its implementation in day-to-day life wherein it could enhance the lifestyle as well as provide better safety and performance to its end users. The government has enforced stringent laws against usage of mobile phones while driving a vehicle. Yet, there seems to be a sense of casualness amongst our citizens...
We implemented a positioning engine for mobile phones that can be trained by the users to recognize places as personal landmarks by their wireless communication fingerprint. Our always-best-positioned approach integrates heterogeneous sensor data, such as Bluetooth (BT) device addresses, WLAN MACs, GSM cell ids and GPS coordinates, if available. As an alternative to measuring the signal strength of...
Recognizing the transportation modes of people's daily living is an important research issue in the pervasive computing. Prior research in this field mainly uses Global Positioning System (GPS), Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) or their combination with accelerometer to recognize transportation modes, such as walking, driving, etc. In this paper, we will introduce transportation mode...
With the widespread usage of mobile phones primarily due to their reduced costs, they are now not only being used for communication but can also assist law enforcing agencies to keep track of speeding vehicles or can be used by organizations to keep track of its employees. The three ways of tracking which are primarily in use are (a) via GPS (b) Using signal attenuation property of a packet and (c)Using...
People on the move have a grown need for real-time information and services anytime and anywhere. In many situations, travelers do not feel at ease and well informed when using public transport. Context information on mobile phones e.g., location and calendar data, can significantly improve the user experience in the current situation. The paper addresses an approach of service offering and usage...
This work consists of two main components: (a) a longitudinal ethnographic study in Kyrgyzstan that demonstrates the importance of transportation resources in the developing world and how to plan for an appropriate ICT solution, and (b) the results of a proof-of-concept system engineered to create a bottom-up, transportation information infrastructure using only GPS and SMS. Transportation is a very...
A growing number of mobile phone applications utilize physical location to express the context of information. Most of these location-based applications assume GPS capabilities. Unfortunately, GPS incurs an unacceptable energy cost that can reduce the phone's battery life to less than nine hours. Alternate localization technologies, based on WiFi or GSM, improve battery life at the expense of localization...
Localization is becoming more important with increasing number of cellular phone users. Due to safety aspects with increased emergency calls from mobile phones, new applications related to location based services, and the network optimization with increasing load, localization draws interest from both the academia and the industry. In this study, we propose a neural network based algorithm that uses...
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