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What is Location-Based Service

Chapter 30
Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care
This term refers to a service whose characteristics depend on the location of the user or that one using the position information to provide support to the user.
Published in Chapter:
Location-Based Services to Improve Elderly and Handicapped Citizens’ Mobility
César Benavente-Peces (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Ander Garcia-Gangoiti (Vicomtech-IK4, Spain), José Manuel Pardo-Martín (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Francisco Javier Ortega-González (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), and Javier Franco-Arroyo (Vicomtech-IK4, Spain)
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch030
Abstract
This chapter is aimed at the analysis and description of various wireless technologies and methods for indoor location of mobile/portable devices in order to provide support services to elderly and handicapped people as well as to care and medical services. Indoor location is an open problem that has been analyzed in the last years in order to provide location-based positioning services that can improve the quality of life of end users. GPS location is not possible in these environments due to the lack of satellite coverage. Satellites’ signals are absorbed by buildings’ elements and cannot reach GPS receivers. As a consequence, no location is obtained. One must take into account that many elderly and handicapped people are most of the time in an indoor location. Thus, new technologies and techniques have to be investigated in order to provide additional location services indoors that complement those provided in outdoor situations by the GPS system.
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Chapter 30
Location-Based Services to Improve Elderly and Handicapped Citizens’ Mobility
This term refers to a service whose characteristics depend on the location of the user or that one using the position information to provide support to the user.
Published in Chapter: Location-Based Services to Improve Elderly and Handicapped Citizens’ Mobility; From: Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care
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Chapter 35
Supporting Location-Based Services in Spatial Network Databases
Location-based service is a type of mobile service offered by mobile phone companies or a third-party service provider to mobile phone subscribers. This service sends custom information to the mobile phone subscribers based on their current geographical location. A typical example is when the service sends information about the nearest gas station to a mobile phone user.
Published in Chapter: Supporting Location-Based Services in Spatial Network Databases; From: Handbook of Research on Innovations in Database Technologies and Applications: Current and Future Trends
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Chapter 174
A Proposed Framework for Incorporating Big-Data Technology in National Crisis Management Center
A technology used to locate living entities or objects across telecommunication networks.
Published in Chapter: A Proposed Framework for Incorporating Big-Data Technology in National Crisis Management Center; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 1
Action Research Methods
A service provided to the subscriber based on their current geographic location. This position can be known by the user as an entry or a global positioning system receiver. Most often the term implies the use of a radiolocation function built into the cell network or handset that uses triangulation between the known geographic coordinates of the base stations through which the communication takes place.
Published in Chapter: Action Research Methods; From: Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology
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Chapter 7
User Acceptance of Mobile Services
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Chapter 109
Web-Based Public Participatory GIS
A service provided to the subscriber based on their current geographic location. This position can be known by the user as an entry or a global positioning system receiver. Most often the term implies the use of a radiolocation function built into the cell network or handset that uses triangulation between the known geographic coordinates of the base stations through which the communication takes place.
Published in Chapter: Web-Based Public Participatory GIS; From: Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies
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Chapter 8
Culture and Context Impact on Mobile Tech Application in Organizational Learning: Case Study of UK Higher Education Institution and Chinese State-Owned Enterprise
The software-level service using location-based technologies and data, such as iBeacong and Wi-Fi access points, to provide geo-related information and functions.
Published in Chapter: Culture and Context Impact on Mobile Tech Application in Organizational Learning: Case Study of UK Higher Education Institution and Chinese State-Owned Enterprise; From: Mobile Technologies in Educational Organizations
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Planning Online: A Community-Based Interactive Decision-Making Model
A service provided to the subscriber based on their current geographic location. This position can be known by user entry or a global positioning system receiver. Most often the term implies the use of a radiolocation function built into the cell network or handset that uses triangulation between the known geographic coordinates of the base stations through which the communication takes place.
Published in Chapter: Planning Online: A Community-Based Interactive Decision-Making Model; From: Handbook of Research on E-Planning: ICTs for Urban Development and Monitoring
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