Location Based Alarms(LBS)

Location Based services are applications which provide software soutions which are location sensitive.

Location Based Alert is a very useful kind of Location Based Service in which alerts can be set based on your location
but not based on your time. So that when you travel long distances, you need not set alarm in your mobile phone based on your
expected time to reach, Instead you can set alarm based on your destination and need not worry about the time delays in your travel.

Location Based Services are used the most only in mobile phones.

Currently there are two different technologies that are used in LBS

1) Mobile GSM Network Signals
2) GPS device

1) mobile GSM Network Signals

The approximate location can be predicted based on the network signals from the Mobile tower or based on the CBS
(Cell Broadcast Service) known as Cell Info Display in Nokia or Area Info in Sony ericsson. So what basically a Location Based Alarm
application does is that it records all network cells that you visit and later use it to set alerts based on the already recorded network cells.
So that when u log into the corresponding network cell your phone will ring. Since this does not require any external hardware it is
the cheapest location based service you can afford. The only investment would be the mobile application which is an one time inverstment.

There are lots of applications to this Location Based Alerts like

- Set alerts to notify you to switch to Silent Mode when you enter into the church
- Set alerts based on your destination when you travel long distances

and lots more like this

One such solution is already provided by WWW.MOBYQUBE.COM in which all you got to do is just download the mobile application Java to
your phone.


2) GPS

GPS devices are devices that gives your exact Location in Latitude and Longitude approximate to + or - 1 M.
There are bluetooth enabled GPS devices from which the mobile phone can get the location data through bluetooth
and use that location data for Location Based Services. The only hestitating factor is that you got to buy a seperate
GPS device in addition to your existing bluetooth phone for this to work. But since the GPS gives you the exact location
data it is got lots of applications compared to the alternate solution for this GPS.

There are lots of GPS Location Based services provided by various companies

Given below is a company which provides such solution

www.gpswatcher.com

This could be really useful especially if you travel a lot on business. Instead of alerts it would be even better if it would change your phone onto silent mode when you enter church or something. Then when you exit it will turn back off. Of course just the notification is helpful because it's just an extra few steps. It is amazing what you can do with your cell phone now. Although, depending on the cost of this feature, it may not be worth it. I have grown used to adding reminders in my phone or tasks and when it reminds me too early, I just hit the edit button and select a new time. Although if you have something over and over again that occurs but you don't want to have it remind you every time this would be handy.

Yeah its actually not only alerts. You can view a complete log of your travel route in your phone along with its Timestamps. So after your travel you can view summary of your travel journey aong with time at which it reached each place along with its route. There are lots more similar applications like this. You can view the location of your friends also for free. You can get alerts to your phone when your kid reaches back home from school. We can think of lots more applications like this using Location based Alerts.

This post has been edited by kuberan_swe: Aug 12 2007, 05:52 AM

TravelMate which is a location based alert application is finally released....

August 27

You can download and try the application.

www.mobyqube.com for more details...

wap.mobyqube.com to WAP download the trial....


take a look at it ppl...