Technological factors

Research Questions Technological factors

What is Location Based Service?

Location Based Services (LBS) are business and consumer services that givers users a set of services starting from the geographic location of the client. This position can be known by user entry, or a GPS receiver. These services offer the possibility to users or machines to find/locate other persons, machines, vehicles, resources and also location-sensitive services, as well as the possibility for users t track their own location. The request for location can be originated from the client himself and from other entity such as an application provider or the network. Anyway, whenever location is requested the customer has to give the permission for the location request. Most Location Based Services include two major actions:

            [1] Obtaining the location of user
            [2] Utilising this information to provide a service

Types & Groups

There are three basic types of LBS: pull, push and tracking. In the case of pull service, a customer mskes by himself a request for LBS. The push service differ from the pull services on thr point that the request for service is not technically made by the customer but by the service provider. Tracking services are the third basic type of LBS. The idea for that type of service is that someone asks for a location of the mobile terminal. All the available services until now can be divided in four major groups:

            [1] Business Applications (Asset Tracking / Field Services / 
                Billing / Buying / Advertising)
            [2] Entertainment & Leisure (Gaming / Location-based Imaging / 
                Athletics / Travel)
            [3] Navigation / POI Look-up / Traffic
            [4] Social Networking (Peer to Peer / Find Me / Personal Security)

What LB technology will be accepted by large amounts of potential users? And how fast can this users adapt to this technologies? 1.
2. Who are the stakeholders in this technology?
3. Who has influence over this technology?
4. What are the required infrastructure for enabling LBS?
5. What devices are currently available?
6. What future devices may be available?
7. What are the limitations of LBS?
8. What are the technical implications of LBS?
9. Are there any substitutes for this technology?

Amarantha:
1. What are the planned future developments of the infrastructure?