Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
I.
INTRODUCTION
516
II.
TABLE I.
517
518
CONCLUSION
With our proposed system, a successful attempt was
made to reduce both initial investment cost as well as the
operational cost in terms devices and services. There is no
need for someone to buy other expensive and specific
devices. A cheap Bluetooth GPS receiver connected to a
simple Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone or a mobile
phone with integrated GPS receiver, works great for the
proposed GPS tracking system. By using free Google
Maps APIs, HTTP protocol, intelligent logging, and an
intelligent positioning calculation, the service cost has
been reduced dramatically, providing most services
provided by existing systems. The intelligent positioning
calculation reduces the amount of GPS data sent to the
server. If a devices position is static, the application in
the device checks whether there is need to send GPS data
to the server or not. There is a distance calculation
performed by the application prior to the last GPS data
received. In the event that there is a small change in the
GPS position, no data is sent to the server, thus reducing
costs. Using the free Google Maps API for tract
visualization, there was no need to develop a map solution
and this contributed in the cost reduction of developing
the system. Also for SMS alerts, the existing option of
Email SMS is exploited. A mobile phone having WAP
can receive the SMS alerts and implementing this type of
alert is totally free. Orange and Emtel, the two major
mobile network operators allow their subscribers to
receive text messages sent as an email in the appropriate
format. Thus there is no need to have a paid SMS gateway
for Geofence alerts.
REFERENCES
[1] Osicki A, nd. GPS Technology and Accuracyniversity of Ulster.
[Online]
Available
at:
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~aaosicki/GPS_Tec.pdf
[Accessed 20
April 2011].
[2] McGlinchey, G.J., 2009. Indoor Wireless Location Determination.
Computer Science Thesis. University of Ulster.
[3] ICTA Website, 2009. Information and Communication
Technologies
Authority.
[Online]
Available
at:
http://www.icta.mu/documents/publications/ICTA_AR2009.pdf
[Accessed 16 November 2010].
[4] ICL Website, 2010. ICL Island Communications Limited. [Online]
Available at http://www.islandcomltd.mu/ [Accessed 20 November
2010].
[5] Ojala, T. et al., 2003. SmartRotuaari Context-aware Mobile
Multimedia Services. Proceedings of the 2nd International
Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia Norrkping
Sweden,
p.9-18.
Available
at:
http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/011/005/ecp011005.pdf.
[6] Kaasinen, E., 2005. User acceptance of mobile services value,
ease of use, trust and ease of adoption. Vtt Publications.
[7] Naveo.2011.
[Online]
Available
at
http://www.naveo.mu/files/index.php [Accessed 15 Sept 2010]
[8] Geotab.2011 [Online] Available at http://www.geotab.com/
[Accessed 15 Sept 2010]
[9] Onertrack.2011.[Online] Available at http://onertrack.en.ec21.com/
GPS_Web_Tracking_Centre_System--3529171_3852288.html
[10] Instamapper.2011. Available at
http://www.instamapper.com/
[Accessed 15 Sept 2010]
519