Location-Based Information Systems: Developing Real-Time Tracking Applications

By Miguel A. Labrador, Pedro M Wightman, Alfredo J Perez, et al.

Book Overview

Drawing on the authors' more than six years of R&D experience in location-based information systems as well as their participation in defining the Java ME Location API 2.0, this text describes the technical components needed to create location-based services with an emphasis on nonproprietary, freely available solutions that work across different technologies and platforms. Each chapter presents a general real-time tracking system example that can be easily adapted to target any application domain and that can incorporate other sensor data to make the system "participatory sensing" or "human-centric sensing." A companion website offers many supporting materials.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439848548
• ISBN13: 9781439848548
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"