Location-based information systems
Subtitle: developing real-time tracking applications
By: Miguel A. Labrador, Pedro M. Wightman, Alfredo Jose Perez
Contributors: Wightman, Pedro M.; Perez, Alfredo Jose
Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC computer and information science series
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439848548
Subjects: Location-based services
Description: "The book provides a comprehensive introduction to developing location-based information systems based on GPS-enabled cellular phones. It describes all of the components needed to develop a location-based information system and provides readers with the opportunity to build an example application. Chapters cover obtaining a user's location, storing and retrieving data, communicating over a network, Java ME Web services, and visualizing data. In the theoretical chapters, the authors address location provider architectures, the hardware and software architecture of a mobile phone, the Java ME platform, and other important programming aspects for mobile phones"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.