An Android Generic Geo-Fencing Application: Proximity Triggered Notification Service Delivery

The widespread availability of smartphones, presents unprecedented opportunity to devise creative software solutions that leverage on the powerful hardware embedded in this devices to aid and improve interactions between the user and the environmen

Geofencing in the GCC and China: A Marketing Trend That’s Not Going Away

This research discusses an emergent marketing trend which is revolutionizing the way in which bricks and mortars retailers are reaching their consumers. This emergent marketing trend falls into the mobile marketing classification and is identified as geofencing. Geofencing is identified as the development of a virtual boundary around a predetermined area be it a single building, shopping center or a section of a municipality. This boundary is developed through the combination of geolocation technology involving GPS, smartphones and the integration of other communication based services such as text, email and social media and so forth. A case study involving the use of a geofence by a bike-sharing company in China, ofo, is utilized to demonstrate how geofencing can be integrated into particular business models. In this case, ofo uses geofencing to monitor specific bike inventories by area and to ensure that its consumers in each area return the inventory to the appropriate market. This case, in turn, is then compared to how geofencing can be developed and applied in a market as diverse as the Gulf Cooperation Council or the GCC which consists of six member states with Saudi Arabia being the largest and most important. In this instance, the use of a geofence and geofencing technology is shown to be relevant with respect to Saudi Arabia’s retail sector which is burgeoning at a rapid pace. Geofencing allows retailers to notify consumers directly via SMS, MMS, email or social media notification of some sort of specials, sales or discounts at a given retailer when the consumer passes near that retailer. Finally, this report also discusses the direction that this geofencing technology within the context of marketing is taking and may take in the future. This includes some discussion about the integration of augmented reality into the framework of geofencing and so forth

An Android Generic Geo-Fencing Application: Proximity Triggered Notification Service Delivery

The widespread availability of smartphones, presents unprecedented opportunity to devise creative software solutions that leverage on the powerful hardware embedded in this devices to aid and improve interactions between the user and the environmen

Peningkatan Akurasi Penanganan Pengaduan Pelayanan Publik Berbasis Lokasi Pelapor Menggunakan Geolokasi

The new normal era requires all activities to be online, so that people use more public services. However, at the same time the level of complaints has increased, from the many complaints that have been received, it must be known, which one is the correct complaint according to the location of the incident or is it just an act of ignorant hands. So that a special strategy is needed, by utilizing technology to determine the location of the incident accu-rately. One of the implementations of complaint handling by the whistleblower is that the reporter uses a smartphone. This is the reason the researchers raised the application of geotagging techniques to find out complete location information and geofencing methods to determine whether a location is included in the scope of an area. Several experiments have been carried out to test the accuracy of the techniques that will be applied to this e-complaint system. With an accuracy of 96%, this geofencing technique is good enough to be applied. In addition, the geotagging technique using EXIF from a digital image is considered the most suitable to be applied in this system than other geotagging techniques

Geofences on the Blockchain: Enabling Decentralized Location-based Services

A decentralized ride- or carsharing application is among the early proposals of what smart contracts on blockchains may enable in the future. To facilitate use cases in the field of location-based services (LBS), smart contracts need to receive trustworthy positioning information, and be able to process them. We propose an approach on how geofences can be defined in smart contracts, and how supplied positions can be evaluated on whether they are contained in the geofence or not. The approach relies on existing location encoding systems like Geohashes and S2 cells that can transform polygons into a grid of cells. These can be stored in a smart contract to represent a geofence. An oracle run by a mobile network provider can submit network-based positioning information to the contract, that compares it with the geofence. We evaluate the location encoding systems on their ability to model city geofences and mobile network cell position estimates and analyze the costs associated with storing and evaluating received oracle-positions in an Ethereum-based smart contract implementation. Our results show that S2 encodings perform better than Geohashes, that the one-time cost of geofence definition corresponds linearly with the number of grid cells used, and that the evaluation of oracle-submitted locations does not incur high costs

e-mission: an open source, extensible platform for human mobility systems

Transportation is the single largest source of carbon emissions in the US. Decarbonizing it is challenging because it depends on individual behaviors, which in turn, depend on local land use planning. The interdisciplinary field of Computational Mobility, focusing on collecting, analysing and influencing human travel behavior, can frame solutions to this challenge.Innovation flows in interdisciplinary fields are bi-directional. The flow to the domain is focused on building a strong foundation for methodological improvements. As the improvements are deployed, they result in use-inspired computational research. This temporal dependency results in our initial focus on the modularity, accuracy and reproducibility of e-mission, an extensible platform for instrumenting human mobility. This open source platform has a modular architecture that supports power efficient duty cycling using virtual sensors, a read-only data model and a pipeline with novel algorithm adaptations for smartphone sensing.We also perform the first empirical evaluations of smartphone-based platforms in this domain. The architectural evaluation is based on three real world deployments: a classic travel diary, a crowdsourcing initiative, and a behavioral study. The accuracy evaluation is based on an novel procedure that uses artificial trips and multiple parallel phones to mitigate concerns over privacy, context sensitive power consumption and inherent sensing error. Data collected from three artifical timelines was used to evaluate the trajectory, segmentation and classification accuracies vs. power for various configurations.On computational side, challenges derived from the deployments can contribute to ongoing CS research in privacy, trustworthiness, incentivization and decision making. On the mobility side, this enables methodological innovations such as Agile Urban Planning for prototyping infrastructure changes

Analyzing Micro-Local Communication Technologies to Support an On-Campus Agroecology Corridor

Final project for INST490: Integrated Capstone for Information Science (Spring 2020). University of Maryland, College Park.The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources seeks to to raise awareness of and stimulate conversations about sustainability, food security, and food supply within the University of Maryland and is pursuing the creation of an Agroecology Corridor. This project would connect the network of green spaces and sustainability projects on campus to maximize their use in teaching, demonstrations, community outreach, and research. To support that connection and determine the best solutions, our team researched eight microcommunication technologies, and are propose the three most effective technologies we believe will assist the College achieve its goal. The research considered multiple criteria including affordability, accessibility, and durability. The report’s four sections follow each step of the project: • an initial technology analysis introduces and describes the eight micro-communication technologies and examines their advantages, disadvantages and cost estimates • case studies that consider the applications of each technology in different campus spaces for varied user demographics • final recommendations for the top three technologies (beacons, push notifications, and nature signs) that our team believes would be the most effective • next steps for groups that may continue this project. Through research and analysis, this report aims to provide critical background information about beacons, push notifications, and nature signs as well as their potential for implementation on the University of Maryland campus. With proper integration, these technologies will help foster interest and important discussion about green spaces throughout campus. This report will also serve as the foundation for the project’s future stages as it continues in coming semesters.University of Marylan