Alternative Positioning Method using GSM Signals ()
Abstract
Location-Based-Services (LBS) have not made any significant foray into commercial applications following the mandatory 911 requirements for emergency location initiated by US. Commercial adoption of LBS has been hampered by cost issues and technical difficulties faced by the various modes of positioning. For LBS to be really usable, positioning, irrespective of the technology, has to be a seamless and transparent process and made available under most environments and to within acceptable accuracy. Several services for positioning technologies had been researched and developed around GSM radio network, each with varying success. This paper describes a commercial application that has been developed on the Symbian platform. It allows user-friendly access to maps on a phone and incorporates a proprietary location algorithm that resides within the phone. The algorithm is a significant improvement from basic cell-id location methods.
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G. Chai, "Alternative Positioning Method using GSM Signals," Positioning, Vol. 1 No. 8, 2004, pp. -.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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