Locating friends and family using mobile phones with global positioning system (GPS)

Author

Al-Suwaidi, Ghaith Bader ; Zemerly, Mohamed Jamal

Author_Institution

Comput. Eng. Dept., Khalifa Univ. for Sci., Sharjah

fYear

2009

fDate

10-13 May 2009

Firstpage

555

Lastpage

558

Abstract

This paper presents a mobile application based on providing location based services (LBS) using Global Positioning System (GPS) as a location provider. The main objective of this work is to design and implement a client server system that helps users to locate their family members and receive alerts when friends are nearby. The mobile application was implemented using J2ME where the most recent APIs and other older APIs were combined together in order to make the application reliable on all types of mobiles. The server was implemented using PHP since PHP guarantees that the server would not be overloaded. The type of the database used in the system was MySQL. The average location accuracy of the application is about couple of meters.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; SQL; client-server systems; mobile handsets; telecommunication computing; GPS; Global Positioning System; MySQL; client server system; location based services; location provider; mobile application; mobile phones; Application software; Client server systems; Communication networks; Databases; Global Positioning System; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Navigation; Network servers; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Systems and Applications, 2009. AICCSA 2009. IEEE/ACS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rabat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3807-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3806-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AICCSA.2009.5069380

Filename

5069380