mTracker: A Mobile Tracking Application for Pervasive Environment

Author

Varandas, Luis C M ; Vaidya, Binod ; Rodrigues, Joel J P C

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal

fYear

2010

fDate

20-23 April 2010

Firstpage

962

Lastpage

967

Abstract

The use of mobile devices has become part of our daily routine. Recently, mobile devices like mobile phones or portable digital displays (PDAs) are equipped with global positioning system (GPS) receptors that allow us to get the device geographic position in real time. This paper describes a tracking application tool, called mobile tracker, which uses location-based services (LBs) like GPS or global system for mobile (GSM) network to track a mobile device. Through the known geographic position, this application enables the user to track a mobile device and send alerts if it is out of the radius around an interest point, previously defined by the application administrator.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; cellular radio; mobile computing; mobile handsets; GSM network; geographic position; global positioning system; location-based services; mTracker application; mobile devices; mobile tracking application; pervasive environment; Application software; GSM; Global Positioning System; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Personal digital assistants; Security; Telecommunications; Vehicle driving; GPS; GSM cell; Mobile computing; SIM card; location-aware computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA), 2010 IEEE 24th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Perth, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6701-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAINA.2010.164

Filename

5480925