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Chapter 133
Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management
Location Based Service use location-enabled devices (e.g., smart phone) to track the location of users within the range of a wireless network.
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Selecting the Right RTLS in Hospitals
Ygal Bendavid (École des sciences de la gestion (ESG), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9787-4.ch133
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Chapter 132
RTLS in Hospitals: Technologies and Applications
Location Based Service use location-enabled devices (e.g., smartphone) to track the location of users within the range of a wireless network.
Published in Chapter: RTLS in Hospitals: Technologies and Applications; From: Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management
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Chapter 18
Understanding Mobile Phone Usage through a Value-Based Approach: Marketing Implications
Service that offers personal navigation and location awareness features, and this service uses location data to control features. It detects users’ current geographic positions to provide personalized services such as car navigation software, weather information, and Google Maps.
Published in Chapter: Understanding Mobile Phone Usage through a Value-Based Approach: Marketing Implications; From: Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior
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Chapter 14
Information Places: Navigating Interfaces between Physical and Digital Space
Location based services are wireless ‘mobile content’ services which are to provide location-specific information to mobile users moving from location to location.
Published in Chapter: Information Places: Navigating Interfaces between Physical and Digital Space; From: Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City
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Chapter 128
Mobile Geographic Information Services
Location-based service. “Any service or application that extends spatial information processing, or GIS capabilities, to end users via the Internet and/or wireless network.”
Published in Chapter: Mobile Geographic Information Services; From: Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition
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Chapter 40
Ambient E-Service: A Bottom-up Collaborative Business Model
Location-based services employ knowledge of the user’s location to enable the provision of new or enhanced services to a user via a wireless handheld device
Published in Chapter: Ambient E-Service: A Bottom-up Collaborative Business Model; From: Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy
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