Technological factors
Research Questions Technological factors
What is Location Based Service?
Location Based Services are business and consumer services that givers users a set of services starting from the geographic location of the client. 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.
A location-based service (or LBS) in a cellular telephone network is a service provided to the subscriber based on her current geographic location. This position can be known by user entry, or a GPS receiver that she carries with her, but 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.
The services can be divided in four major categories:
[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?