GRASP: Geographic Rendezvous Application

In this paper we have introduced a geographic rendezvous application through SMS Pushing (GRASP), a novel push based location based application. This enables a person to know whether any of his/her friends or colleagues, specified by the requesting user is present at a particular place also specified by the requesting user. The system also enables the service user to specify a future date and time when he/she wants the service to be activated. This application is particularly helpful in corporate and business scenarios. The paper also discusses how a relatively simple but efficient method of SMS pushing through a GSM modem can be implemented as a solution to this problem which is a one of a kind architecture and implementation. The paper also briefly shades light on how the privacy and security concerns related to this kind of application can be dealt with.