Widget Based Position System (WBPS) an innovative mobile Application

Author

Lashkari, Arash Habibi ; Parhizkar, Behrang ; Rahman, Hameedur

Author_Institution

Fac. of FCSIT, Univ. Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

16-18 April 2010

Abstract

WBPS is a project where the goal is to enhance the experience of locating friends and family by using GPS and standard web technology. This has lead to a design consisting of three parts: a mobile client, a repository, a web client, and a map service. The mobile client, which consists of a mobile phone and a GPS receiver, can be used to find the location of family and friends and send sms, when someone is nearby by users to see the real location and positions. These data can be sends it through the communication network to the server from the mobile client to the repository in order to share location & position with others. The information in the repository can be managed and viewed using the web client. This design has been realized in a proof-of-concept implementation to show that such a system is feasible to develop. The mobile client is implemented using J2ME & JavaScript and the repository and the web client is implemented using php & MySQL.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; Internet; cartography; mobile computing; mobile handsets; GPS receiver; J2ME; JavaScript; MySQL; WBPS; Web client; communication network; map service; mobile client; mobile phone; server; standard Web technology; widget based position system; Communication networks; Displays; Fires; Global Positioning System; Information science; Java; Mobile handsets; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Software engineering; GPS; Mobile Phones; Mobile Widgets; Position (LBS);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Engineering and Technology (ICCET), 2010 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6347-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCET.2010.5485646

Filename

5485646