Objective
The term Location-Based Services (LBS), is used to describe a family of services that depend on the knowledge of the geographic location of mobile stations. The main driving force for LBS provision has always been the urge for more advanced personalized services. Motivated by the identified extensive diversity of Location Based Services and the need to introduce new services rapidly, in order to satisfy current market trends, this project focuses on the design and implementation of an Integrated Platform, covering the full range of related issues such as Service Creation, Service Deployment and Provision. Such platform will be customisable to a wide spectrum of business domains (e.g. Emergency Services, Fleet Management, Medical Tele-monitoring, Automotive Assistance). This capability will be demonstrated through the specialization of the derived generic infrastructure in a domain such as automotive assistance.
Objectives:
The project will investigate existing schemes for location-based services and latest technological achievements in the sector of Geographical Information Systems, positioning techniques and network interfaces in order to design and implement a platform capable of providing the full functionality needed to design, create and deploy location based services. To achieve this functionality, the platform will feature a component-based architecture, with each component having a specific and clearly defined functionality. The platform will be independent of the underlying network infra- structure and the LBS creation will be supported from a Service Creation Environment (SCE). Integration of the individual functional components into a single platform will be made as well as demonstration of a prototypical deployment over an existing network operator.
Work description:
The PoLoS project will be structured in eleven workpackages (WPs) that, in turn, will be organized in four main workgroups (WGs): WG0 addresses all the administrative and technical management tasks, such as project management, dissemination, exploitation, assessment and evaluation of the project. WG1 tries to establish the requirements of the system and initiates work on the Process Models. UML will be extensively used towards the formal specification of requirements and the specification of the pursued system. WG1 will also include extensive surveys on state-of-the-art technologies of the considered domain in order to cater for the widest possible technological domain. WG2 will be the core activity within the project. WG2 will deliver both the Service Creation Environment and the Service Deployment and Provision platform. Towards these objectives, the consortium will capitalise on well-established technologies and standards like J2EE and XML. Lastly, WG3 will demonstrate the easiness in the deployment of new LBS using the outcomes of WG2. At first WG3 will try to integrate the full-scale system into a testing environment. The rational behind this activity is the validation of interfaces towards positioning technologies or the low-level telecom infrastructure (e.g. terminals exposing their capabilities to the fixed network infrastructure), before the fully-fledged deployment on equipment provided by the participating telecom operator. As soon as the activity is completed, the domain specialisation will follow. The final integrated platform will be installed and operated, possibly, in the premises of the operator. A service (e.g. automotive assistance) will be deployed and operated on experimental, pilot basis. The service will either be based on terminal-based position fixing (e.g. using GPS) or exploit the network-based positioning functionality (e.g. E-OTD), if such functionality is available by the operator.
Milestones:
M1: Architecture and services defined and specified;
M2: All Implementation completed;
M3: Integration and testing completed;
M4: Trials completed and project results evaluated.
Call for proposal
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