scholarly journals Location-aware systems or location-based services: a survey with applications to CoViD-19 contact tracking

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 191-214
Author(s):  
H. R. Schmidtke
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Location Awareness ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Location Aware ◽  
Share Data ◽  
Contact Tracking ◽  
Key Steps

Abstract With the CoViD-19 pandemic, location awareness technologies have seen renewed interests due to the numerous contact tracking mobile application variants developed, deployed, and discussed. For some, location-aware applications are primarily a producer of geospatial Big Data required for vital geospatial analysis and visualization of the spread of the disease in a state of emergency. For others, comprehensive tracking of citizens constitutes a dangerous violation of fundamental rights. Commercial web-based location-aware applications both collect data and—through spatial analysis and connection to services—provide value to users. This value is what motivates users to share increasingly private and comprehensive data. The willingness of users to share data in return for services has been a key concern with web-based variants of the technology since the beginning. With a focus on two privacy preserving CoViD-19 contact tracking applications, this survey walks through the key steps of developing a privacy preserving context-aware application: from types of applications and business models, through architectures and privacy strategies, to representations.

Location-Aware Mobile Media and Advertising

2016 ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
Mei Wu ◽  
Qi Yao
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Location Awareness ◽  
Information Propagation ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Location Aware ◽  
Modern Technologies

Location-Based Services (LBS) that are combined with ubiquitous smartphones usher in a new form of information propagation: Location-Based Advertising (LBA). Modern technologies enable mobile devices to generate and update location information automatically, which facilitates marketers to launch various types of location-aware advertising and promotional services to users who are in the vicinity. This chapter conceptualizes location-aware mobile communication as the locative and mobile media with a McLuhan's notion of retrieve of “locality” in the “networked” space of information flows, and examines the current dilemma faced by LBA in China through a case study. It first defines location-aware mobile technologies and influences such media afford for location-aware advertising and information propagation. It then provides an overview of the development of LBS and LBA in China. A case study of the LBA app “SBK” further offers a detailed examination how new models of advertising are developed with the technical affordances of location awareness, sociability, and spatiality. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the constraints and potential of LBA in China.

Location-Aware Mobile Media and Advertising

2014 ◽  
pp. 228-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei Wu ◽  
Qi Yao
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Location Awareness ◽  
Information Propagation ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Location Aware ◽  
Modern Technologies

Location-Based Services (LBS) that are combined with ubiquitous smartphones usher in a new form of information propagation: Location-Based Advertising (LBA). Modern technologies enable mobile devices to generate and update location information automatically, which facilitates marketers to launch various types of location-aware advertising and promotional services to users who are in the vicinity. This chapter conceptualizes location-aware mobile communication as the locative and mobile media with a McLuhan's notion of retrieve of “locality” in the “networked” space of information flows, and examines the current dilemma faced by LBA in China through a case study. It first defines location-aware mobile technologies and influences such media afford for location-aware advertising and information propagation. It then provides an overview of the development of LBS and LBA in China. A case study of the LBA app “SBK” further offers a detailed examination how new models of advertising are developed with the technical affordances of location awareness, sociability, and spatiality. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the constraints and potential of LBA in China.

Cultural Economies of Locative Media

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowan Wilken
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Location Awareness ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
Location Data ◽  
New Business ◽  
Cultural Economies ◽  
Social Uses

Cultural Economies of Locative Media examines the manifold ways that location, location-awareness, and location data have all become familiar yet increasingly significant parts of our mobile-mediated experiences of everyday life. The book explores the complex of interrelationships that mutually define the new business models and economic factors that emerge around and structure locative media services, their diverse social uses and cultures of consumption, and their policy implications and impacts. It offers a detailed, in-depth account of how location-based services, such as GPS-enabled mobile smartphones and associated applications, are socially, culturally, economically, and politically produced and shaped, as much as technically designed and manufactured. The result is a rich, composite portrait of locative media in all its cultural economic complexity.

scholarly journals Location-aware mobile technologies: Historical, social and spatial approaches

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana de Souza e Silva
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Location Awareness ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Signal Degradation ◽  
Location Aware ◽  
Historical Antecedents

With the popularization of smartphones, location-based services are increasingly part of everyday life. People use their cell phones to find nearby restaurants and friends in the vicinity, and track their children. Although location-based services have received sparse attention from mobile communication scholars to date, the ability to locate people and things with one’s cell phone is not new. Since the removal of GPS signal degradation in 2000, artists and researchers have been exploring how location-awareness influences mobility, spatiality, and sociability. Besides exploring the historical antecedents of today’s location-based services, this article focuses on the main social issues that emerge when location-aware technologies leave the strict domain of art and research and become part of everyday life: locational privacy, sociability, and spatiality. Finally, this article addresses two main topics that future mobile communication research that focuses on location-awareness should take into consideration: a shift in the meaning of location, and the adoption and appropriation of location-aware technologies in the global south.

scholarly journals Location-Awareness for Failure Management in Cellular Networks: An Integrated Approach

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1501
Author(s):  
Sergio Fortes ◽  
Carlos Baena ◽  
Javier Villegas ◽  
Eduardo Baena ◽  
Muhammad Zeeshan Asghar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cellular Networks ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
System Level ◽  
Location Information ◽  
Location Awareness ◽  
System Level Simulation ◽  
Location Aware ◽  
And Performance

Recent years have seen the proliferation of different techniques for outdoor and, especially, indoor positioning. Still being a field in development, localization is expected to be fully pervasive in the next few years. Although the development of such techniques is driven by the commercialization of location-based services (e.g., navigation), its application to support cellular management is considered to be a key approach for improving its resilience and performance. When different approaches have been defined for integrating location information into the failure management activities, they commonly ignore the increase in the dimensionality of the data as well as their integration into the complete flow of networks failure management. Taking this into account, the present work proposes a complete integrated approach for location-aware failure management, covering the gathering of network and positioning data, the generation of metrics, the reduction in the dimensionality of such data, and the application of inference mechanisms. The proposed scheme is then evaluated by system-level simulation in ultra-dense scenarios, showing the capabilities of the approach to increase the reliability of the supported diagnosis process as well as reducing its computational cost.

scholarly journals SWAN platform: A web-based tool to support the development of industrial solid waste reuse business models

2021 ◽  
pp. 0734242X2198941
Author(s):  
Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis ◽  
George Arampatzis ◽  
Tryfonas Pieri ◽  
Konstantina Solomou ◽  
Panagiotis Dedousis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid Waste ◽  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Matching Algorithm ◽  
Waste Reuse ◽  
Industrial Solid Waste ◽  
Business Cases ◽  
Industrial Unit

The SWAN platform is an integrated suite of online resources and tools for assessing industrial symbiotic opportunities based on solid industrial waste reuse. It has been developed as a digital solid waste reuse platform and is already applied in four countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and Cyprus). The SWAN platform integrates a database with the spatial and technical characteristics of industrial solid waste producers and potential consumers, populated with data from these countries. It also incorporates an inventory of commercially implemented best practices on solid industrial waste reuse. The role of the SWAN platform is to facilitate the development of novel business cases. Towards this end, decision support services, based on a suitable matching algorithm, are provided to the registered users, helping them to identify and assess potential novel business models, based on solid waste reuse, either for an individual industrial unit (source/potential receiver of solid waste) or a specific region.

ILSSPP: Intelligent location sharing system with privacy preserving features for smart cities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Gokay Saldamli ◽  
Richard Chow ◽  
Hongxia Jin
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Location Information ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Location Sharing ◽  
Social Network Structure

Social networking services are increasingly accessed through mobile devices. This trend has prompted services such as Facebook and Google+to incorporate location as a de facto feature of user interaction. At the same time, services based on location such as Foursquare and Shopkick are also growing as smartphone market penetration increases. In fact, this growth is happening despite concerns (growing at a similar pace) about security and third-party use of private location information (e.g., for advertising). Nevertheless, service providers have been unwilling to build truly private systems in which they do not have access to location information. In this paper, we describe an architecture and a trial implementation of a privacy-preserving location sharing system called ILSSPP. The system protects location information from the service provider and yet enables fine grained location-sharing. One main feature of the system is to protect an individual’s social network structure. The pattern of location sharing preferences towards contacts can reveal this structure without any knowledge of the locations themselves. ILSSPP protects locations sharing preferences through protocol unification and masking. ILSSPP has been implemented as a standalone solution, but the technology can also be integrated into location-based services to enhance privacy.

DistPreserv: Maintaining User Distribution for Privacy-Preserving Location-Based Services

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Yanbing Ren ◽  
Xinghua Li ◽  
Yinbin Miao ◽  
Robert Deng ◽  
Jian Weng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Location Based Services
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