Miguel A. Labrador eBooks

Drawing on the authors more than six years of RD in location-based information systems (LBIS) as well as their participation in defining the Java ME Location API 2.0, Location-Based Information Systems: Developing Real-Time Tracking Applications provides information and examples for creating real-time LBIS based on GPS-enabled cellular phones. Each chapter presents a general real-time tracking system example that can be easily adapted to target any application domain and that can incorporate other sensor data to make the system "participatory sensing" or "human-centric sensing." The book covers all of the components needed to develop an LBIS. It discusses cellular phone programming using the Java ME platform, positioning technolo...