TY - GEN
T1 - Locating friends and family using mobile phones with Global Positioning System (GPS)
AU - Al-Suwaidi, Ghaith Bader
AU - Zemerly, Mohamed Jamal
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349897775&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/AICCSA.2009.5069380
DO - 10.1109/AICCSA.2009.5069380
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70349897775
SN - 9781424438068
T3 - 2009 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2009
SP - 555
EP - 558
BT - 2009 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2009
T2 - 7th IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA-2009
Y2 - 10 May 2009 through 13 May 2009
ER -