Location-based information systems:developing real-time tracking applications

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Labrador Miguel A.
Group Author: Perez Alfredo Jose.; Wightman Pedro M.
Published: CRC Press,
Publisher Address: Boca Raton, FL
Publication Dates: c2011.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC computer and information science series
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Carrier Form: xviii, 259 p.: ill. ; 24cm.
ISBN: 9781439848548 (hardback)
1439848548 (hardback)
Index Number: TN91
CLC: TN91
Call Number: TN91/L126
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p.251-255) and index.
Introduction -- The mobile phone -- The Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) -- Java ME web services -- System administration -- Data visualization -- Processing the data -- Installing the software development environments (SDE).
"The book provides a comprehensive introduction to developing location-based information systems based on GPS-enabled cellular phones. It describes all of the components needed to develop a location-based information system and provides readers with the opportunity to build an example application. Chapters cover obtaining a user's location, storing and retrieving data, communicating over a network, Java ME Web services, and visualizing data. In the theoretical chapters, the authors address location provider architectures, the hardware and software architecture of a mobile phone, the Java ME platform, and other important programming aspects for mobile phones"--Provided by publisher.