wahlau's online hut

location based services might be something new to some of you, but it is moving strong forward to prepare itself for the future. The LBS is a concept that uses location based information to provide services or functionality. Think in this direction - you are in the middle of the city, you are hungry, the service provider can locate nearby restaurant that suites your taste and likings, and tell you how to get there easily. Or you are planning to go out, but have no idea where. You can check out and see where your friends are in town, and make a suggestion where everyone should meet.

we do similar things too today, but they are far too costly or complicated. Take the second scenario, for example. If we were to do this, we usually need to call the friends up, and make agreement among ourselve before we can decide on one place. Some might suggest to use conference... yeah, but why do this manually, when a service provider can do this automatically?

The field of location based services can be very broad. It can be applied in areas like security and safety, or used in enterprises (think DHL global tracking 2.0), or to be offered to consumers or government. If you have watched Minority Report, you can see how location can be used to provide various advanced services to their potential users. Walk around the town, and your mobile ring to tell you something you might be interested to buy just 5m away, because your supply just went out ;)

In this direction we foresee how future can look like. More automation will take place. We save time, while still being able to make decisions ourselves. The services should never take over our lives. Instead, they compliment our daily lives.

what do you think about such a future?

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