About the Book
Location aware applications sense and react to dynamic environments and activities. Location is a crucial component of context, and major developments have been made in location-sensing technologies, location-aware application support, and location-based applications. Location-aware applications are now a part of everyday life.
This book is your ultimate resource for Location Aware Applications. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.
In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Location Aware Applications right away, covering: Location awareness, Geolocation, Angle of arrival, Automatic vehicle location, Cell of origin (telecommunications), Collocation (wireless metrics), Digital Element, Digital Envoy, E-OTD, Enhanced 9-1-1, Electronic leash, Fuzzy locating system, Gbanga, Gbanga Famiglia, Geolocation software, Horizontal position representation, Hybrid positioning system, Indoor positioning system, Intelleflex Corporation, IP2Location, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC31/WG5, LAMD, Local advertising, Local positioning system, Locating, Locating engine, Location-based game, Location-based service, Mobile local search, Mobile phone tracking, Multidimensional scaling, Multilateration, N-vector, Navizon, Plazes, Positioning (telecommunications), Positioning technology, Real-time geotagging, Sanoodi, Skyhook Wireless, Spatiotemporal database, Syledis, Time of arrival, Tracking system, Transmitter Location Systems, Two-way ranging, U-TDOA, Ultrasound Identification, Vehicle tracking system, Vernacular geography, W3C Geolocation API, Wialon, ZOMM, LLC, Agility Healthcare Solutions, AN/CRN-2, AN/MRN-1, AN/MRN-2, AN/MRN-3, AN/UPN-1, Anti-theft system, Chirp spread spectrum, Choke point, Dead reckoning, Detection, Differential GPS, Electronic article surveillance, Electronic toll collection, Enterprise asset management, Error analysis for the Global Positioning System, Extended Capability RFID, Fleet telematics system, Galileo (satellite navigation), Global Positioning System, GLONASS, Google Latitude, GPS augmentation, GPS for the visually impaired, GPS tracking unit, GPS watch, GPS wildlife tracking, Location-based authentication, LORAN, Medical Mobile, NAVV, NextBus, Operating room management, Phased array, Radio navigation, Radiodetermination, Radiolocation, Ranging, Real Time Kinematic, Real-time locating system, SCR-277, Singulation, Smart products, SunPass, Symmetrical Double Sided - Two Way Ranging, Telematics, Telemetry, Toll Collect, Toll roads around the world, Traceability, Track & Trace, Tracking (hunting), Tracking animal migration, Triangulation, Triangulation station, Trilateration, Tsiklon (satellite navigation system), Turn-by-turn navigation, Wireless triangulation
This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Location Aware Applications. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Location Aware Applications with the objectivity of experienced professionals.
