Location-Based Services (LBS): High-impact Strategies - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Adoptions, Impact, Benefits, Maturity, Vendors

Location-Based Services (LBS): High-impact Strategies - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Adoptions, Impact, Benefits, Maturity, Vendors

A location-based service (LBS) is an information or entertainment service, accessible with mobile devices through the mobile network and utilizing the ability to make use of the geographical position of the mobile device .
LBS can be used in a variety of contexts, such as health, indoor object search, entertainment, work, personal life, etc. .

LBS include services to identify a location of a person or object, such as discovering the nearest banking cash machine or the whereabouts of a friend or employee. LBS include parcel tracking and vehicle tracking services. LBS can include mobile commerce when taking the form of coupons or advertising directed at customers based on their current location. They include personalized weather services and even location-based games. They are an example of telecommunication convergence.

This book is your ultimate resource for Location-Based Services (LBS). 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-Based Services (LBS) right away, covering: Location-based service, Geosocial networking, Brightkite, Dopplr, Face2face, Facebook Places, Fire Eagle, FitFinder, Flook (application), Floxx, Foursquare (social network), Gbanga, Gbanga Famiglia, Geoloqi, Geomium, Google Latitude, Gowalla, Grindr, Loopt, Outalot, Plazes, Project Amicus, SCVNGR, The Hotlist, Whrrl, 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, Geolocation software, Horizontal position representation, Hybrid positioning system, Indoor positioning system, IP2Location, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC31/WG5, LAMD, Local advertising, Local positioning system, Locating, Locating engine, Location awareness, Location-based game, Mobile local search, Mobile phone tracking, Multidimensional scaling, Multilateration, N-vector, Navizon, 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, 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-Based Services (LBS). It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Location-Based Services (LBS) with the objectivity of experienced professionals.