Automatic Classification of Location Based Information

The modern mobile phones can do more than communicate voice and data. The support for different new technical capabilities in mobile devices represents a great opportunity for application developers to create compelling services that are widely used and highly valued. At the same time big volumes of communicated information will require more advanced organizing capabilities. In this paper we present an automatic classification approach of communicated data according to the preferences made by a transmitting source. The information can be structured according to many attributes such as the place, topic, importance, etc. The main idea is to have the information categorized as early as possible and enable automatic rerouting of data to designated data locations on a receiver side. As a case study a simple photo classification application is developed. This application can be extended to storing any information such as day to day life, landmarks, location data and much more, thereby providing a simple tool to sort out information automatically and efficiently. Location based services will benefit from the suggested approach as it will help to categorize the information already tagged according to the location and time. The paper begins by discussing the importance of location based information and services the mobile phone can provide with this location based information. Then we address a suitable development platform which is based on Symbian/Series60 architecture. Finally, the application developed for Symbian/Series60 mobile phones is presented