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DOI: 10.4172/2324-9307.1000182
Research Article
Location Based Service (LBS):
Tracking System
Essa Q. Shahra* and Baqer Al-Ramadan
Abstract
Mobile devices are getting to be progressively public in the
meantime, mobile location-based service (MLBS) is considered
as a productive open door for service suppliers. However, there
has been a moderate development in the MLBS market before
few years. The goal for each location based data framework is to
support with the precise data, at perfect place progressively with
customized setup and location affectability. We have possessed the
capacity to build various distinctive applications where we give the
client data concerning a location he or she needs to travel. However,
this software maybe restricted to computer only. We have to bring
them on mobile gadgets. This paper deploys real-time location
tracking framework for distinctive cell phones utilizing GPS gadgets.
It concentrates on the administration and perception of a greater
part of individuals can be anticipated. Our work can service an on-
going location tracking service for a various parties utilizing TCP/IP
and GPS software in a mobile framework. The client may obtain and
oversee location data of indicated subjects, who need special care
progressively. Such client requiring particular defensive measures,
elderly and kids. The proposed GPS and remote location based
tracking framework may be extensive to different application areas
that recognize client location data and use this at anytime, anyplace.
Keywords
GPS; GIS; LBS; LBSM; Mobile; Tracking
Introduction
A geographic Information System (GIS) is a framework to catch,
store, examine and administer information and related traits that
are spatially referred to earth and LBS. GIS are data administrations
available through cell phones through the versatile system that use the
location of the cell phone [1,2]. In GIS, LBS the location geographical
data that are recorded can save with in tracking unit, or they can be
transferred to web server data bases, this give ability for property
location to be shown in contradiction of a backdrop of map either
using real-time or when the tracks are analysed later, using special
software [3]. Real-time location system defines as a collection of
equipment and programming that is utilized consistently focus and
give ongoing position of benefits tools with devices intended to work
with the framework. They are used to recognize the location of target
continuously [4].
LBS began in the United States in 1996 as per the E-911 regulation
proposed by the government interchanges commission to enhance the
*Corresponding author: Essa Qasem Shahra, Department of Computer
Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia, E-mail: g201302670@kfupm.edu.sa
Received: December 21, 2016 Accepted: January 23, 2017 Published:
January 30, 2017
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crisis reaction to remote calls. Under the administration arrangement,
technologies had been enhanced quickly. What’s more, wide
transmission capacity in remote transmission with location situating
strategies and the rich substance of cellular telephone gadgets have
been connected by administration suppliers also clients [5,6].
The overall population of supporters to global position system
(GPS) area mindful administrations will develop from 12 million in
2006 to an anticipated 315 million in 2011. With North American
development coming to 20 million clients up from 500,000 clients in
2006. With the increment in the amount of clients around the world,
the LBS business sector demonstrates high potential. As indicated
by business gauge reports, the LBS business is anticipated to become
quickly from 2006 to 2010. The LBS showcase in Europe is relied upon
to increment from $191 million to $622 million. The U.S. business
sector is relied upon to increment from $150 million to $3.1 billion.
Then, the Asian business sector is required to increment from $291.7
million to $447 million. In any case, the creating circumstance appears
not to be tantamount to anticipated. All the more particularly, not
all services that the administration suppliers offer (or have effectively
offered) would draw in clients. In this way, while cell phones are
getting progressively popular, administration suppliers consider
LBS on cell phones as a beneficial open door. Under such condition,
understanding client predilection for different mobile location based
services and charging mode are essential.
Objectives
My paper proposes a mobile location tracking framework
utilizing a GPS module for diverse portable gadgets (mobile devices).
A few clients may be requiring to oversee and watch the vast majority
of the subjects (individuals) being monitored. Our proposition can
serve a continuous location tracking service for different gatherings
utilizing TCP/IP remote environment and GPS application in a
mobile environment. The client may get and oversee location data of
pointed out subjects progressively. These may be people who require
unique consideration. Examples include kids, older folks, and those
with wellbeing and security concerns.
Literature Review
GIS and mobile
Research with GIS location based tracking has been shown for
over a decade [7]. GIS has applied on a lot of mobile devices with
the more embracing of GPS. GIS can be used to capture data and
stored it in data bases to be used in different analysis methods. By
using GIS API that is designed to control and deliver data to the web
server, in the web server, the data can be accessed using different
script programming languages such as PHP, ASP.net, and JavaScript
to manipulate and display GIS data. There are a lot of new services
that produce new feature f GIS such as Google Maps and Live Maps that
allow you to show your GIS data on maps and share the map with other,
by using these website it give public access to geographic data around the
world, it provide API which gives the ability to build specific applications
adopting with GIS. Location tracking service has been developed for
many goals such as safety-based on for children [8].
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Location based service (LBS) geographic database. At last, the geographic information is retrieved
from database and displayed on map website for administrator who
According to Benson [9] Location based service refers to location tracks the objects (Figure 1).
based information of mobile devices as a result of mobile request.
It aims to provide specific information about users based on their Mobile location based service
locations at anytime from anywhere [10]. Location based service
Mobile location-based services (MLBS) are remote
related to any service take in mind the geographical location of
administrations that utilize the handled device location to convey
an object [9]. According to Kühn [11] LBS is a service for mobile
applications, abusing apropos geospatial data about the encompassing
user where the knowledge of the past, current and future location
environment of the client. The most important properties of MLBS
construct complete parts of the service. For Jiang and Yao [12] LBS
are the mobility, local ability and compatibility to related service
service support include geographic information and real-time to help
and application [15,16]. According to Chen and Lin [17] pointed
user to make dynamic decision. There are two types of LBS: the closed
out that MLBS has six categories, namely, Personal Security, Peer to
system and open system. The closed LBS system is the system that
peer/find me, navigation/point of interest look up traffic, commerce
use application of GIS system in the device itself to get information
advertising/buying/billing, Gaming/location-based imaging and
from the satellite and has not able to send data. The other type, open
asset tracking/field services. Personal security services are applied to
LBS system is able to transmit data to any environment or application
check the location of children, elders, or pets.
designed to receive that data. Comparing to two types of LBS, open
system has more advantage than closed service. After mentioning the Implementation
two types of LBS system also there are two modes of delivering LBS,
According to Jiang and Yao [12] the first mode is “push” mode, in this Implementation of this project is divided into two parts, mobile
mode no need for user request, but services are pushed automatically application and web site. The first part, is a mobile application that
to the end user. The second mode is called “pull” in which the developed and installed in mobile device, this application is used to
user send request the information to be deliver from the centre of gather the data from GPS satellite from anywhere on the earth and
service. In conclusion, LBS content depending on user priority to be send this data to mobile server. The second part is the website of
specialized. Sending geolocation information from user location can application that is used to collect the data which was sent by mobile
be used to manipulate in different ways. application and stored it in MYSQL database, and also it contains
useful interface that is used by an administrator to monitor all mobile
LBS components devices by displaying their data from data bases on map. The selection
Keeping in mind the end goal to make LBS service conceivable, of data from database has been done by selecting the date from the
some foundation components are essential, including cell phones, user interface and showing it on map. The two parts are explained in
applications, communication network, positioning component, details in the following sections.
and administration servers [13]. Cell phones are gadgets utilized by
clients to access to LBS service, to send request and get response.
Mobile application
Laptops, cellular telephones, Personal Data Assistance (PDAs). It is The mobile application is the software that are designed and
generally programming grew by an application supplier, downloaded installed in mobile device to represent automobile object. This
and introduced on client’s portable gadget. A particular application application was developed using Java for android programming
is generally produced for a particular LBS service. Because of the language and android development tools (Eclipse). This application
limitations of cell phones (memory, little screen size, constrained contains simple interface that allow the users to enable and disable
processor force and battery limit). Communication network refers to the tracker of device by pressing the button of the service. And also
the mobile network which exchanges service demand from client to the application has the ability to detect that if the device is connected
service supplier, and asked for data back to the client. Interchanges to the internet or not, and has the ability to detect if the device has
(GSM) is presently the most widely recognized standard for mobile GPS device in his mobile or not (Figure 2).
networks and is utilized by dominant part of cellular telephones
internationally. Mobile networks are generally controlled and kept up Java for android: The Java programming language for Android
by administrators who give network to mobile clients and charge them is run on a Java virtual machine. This implies that the same compiled
for information and voice transmission. A positioning component Java Android project can run on various Android mobiles with
is generally required in a LBS application to focus the location of
client’s cell phone. A large portion of the current LBS services don’t
oblige clients to include location physically, as giving postal district
or road name. Rather client’s location can be acquired by utilizing
some situating innovations, for example, satellite positioning, cell
system positioning, WLAN stations or radio guides [14]. Service
provider keep up service servers which offer various types of LBS
services to clients and are responsible for preparing service demands
and sending back reply results. Servers figure positions, search for a
route, or search particular data based on client’s position. Figure 1
demonstrates the collaborations among these components, and the
methodology of a LBS service. The service demand, with client’s
present location data acquired from the situating segment (in this
case, GPS information), is sent to service server by means of the
mobile network. The service server receives the request and sends it to Figure 1: LBS components and services.

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Figure 2: Mobile application.
diverse central processing unit (CPU) categories. Java projects
run slower than projects assembled for a CPU in its local machine
language, on the grounds that a Java virtual machine must translate
the code and afterward execute it on the local processor. A program
that is previously compiled for a particular local processor does not
need to be interpreted and can spare execution time by avoiding
this step. A preview from portable application code is recorded on
supplement [18].
Android development tool: Android development Tools (ADT)
is a plugin for the Eclipse IDE that is intended to issue you a capable,
incorporated environment in which to design Android applications. ADT
extends the abilities of Eclipse to give you a chance to rapidly set up new
Android application, make an application UI, include packages based on
the Android Framework API, troubleshoot your applications utilizing
the Android SDK devices, and even fare marked (or unsigned) .apk
extension, documents so as to disseminate your application. Growing in
Eclipse with ADT is exceptionally prescribed and is the quickest approach
to begin. With the guided venture setup it gives, and also tool joining,
custom XML editors, and troubleshoot yield sheet, ADT issues you an
unbelievable help in creating Android applications [19].
Tracking website
It is a web site that is designed and developed using web
programming languages to allow the administrator to monitor the
mobile objects which are vehicle, car or mobile devices. This web site
used to collect the data sent by mobile devices in webserver databases,
displayed it in the map on web page. By displaying the geographic
data on the map get the administrator to track and monitor the mobile
objects at anytime from anywhere. The website monitor has many
features that help the administrator to control and move between the
points of the mobile device quickly and easily by using move one step
forward, move one step backward, go to last step, go to first step, play
features that moved between all points that a mobile travels between
it through one day automatically, and finally, pause which stop the
movement through the point at any time the administrator need.
This website was developed using HTML, PHP and AJAX scripting
language (Figure 3).
HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language ordinarily denoted to
as HTML, is the standard markup language used to make website
pages. It is composed of HTML components comprising of tags
encased in point sections (like <html>). HTML labels most ordinarily
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come in sets like <h1> and </h1>, albeit a few tags signify to blank
components as are unpaired, for instance <img>. The main tag in a
couple is the begin tag, and the second tag is the end tag (they are
additionally called opening tags and closed tag). Web programs can
read HTML records and make them into noticeable or discernible
pages. Programs don’t show the HTML tags and scripts; however,
utilize them to translate the substance of the page. HTML portrays the
structure of a site semantically alongside prompts for presentation,
making it a mark-up dialect, instead of a programming dialect [20].
PHP: Personal home page (PHP), at first known as PHP tools,
was dispatched in June 1995 by Rasmus Lerdorf. It was initially
dispatched as open source programming and remains so right up
‘til the present time. Database joining was executed in form 2.0 in
1996, and the item has developed quickly from that point forward.
Its overall utilization is higher than whatever other web development
language. It is a scripting language, basically utilized on the server
side that can be utilized to produce Hypertext Mark-up Language
(HTML) data dynamically. PHP is joined with a web server, by and
large Apache or Internet Information Server (IIS), and once it has
completed the process of creating fitting HTML, it sends its creation
back to the web server for conveyance to the requesting for customer.
PHP engineers can likewise incorporate PHP with one of a wide range
of database server like MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, DB2, MS SQL,
ORACLE, and so on, to make their made substance as dynamic as
could reasonably be expected. Truly, what is delivered is still a static
HTML document; however it is created on the fly and hence is by all
accounts dynamic. Really, one could contend that since the substance
is alterably coaxed out of a database or some other information
source, PHP is indeed making element content.
AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript (AJAX) is a method for making
quick and dynamic website pages. It permits pages to be redesigned
asynchronously by exchange little measures of information with the
server in the background. This implies that it is conceivable to redesign
parts of a site page, without reloading the entire page. Excellent site
pages, (which don’t utilize AJAX) must reload the whole page if the
substance ought to change. Cases of utilizations utilizing AJAX:
Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, and Facebook [21].
Finding
The objective of the project is to track all mobile devices that use
our mobile application through web site. The interface of the website
provides different facilities for the map such as map, satellite and
zoom. In addition, there are options of play, pause, resume, next trace,
previous trace, first trace and last trace that make the administrator
track all mobiles easily. The Second part of the result is a tracking
using website; in this part the user need to select the date from the text
of date to show all traffics of that date if available as show figure. The
figure displays the view from satellite for the tracking path of mobile
device inside the campus of KFUPM, as it shown in the picture it
represent the path from a house building to the student restaurant,
the point with red mark represent the coordinates that we got from
GPS satellite of the mobile object (Figure 4).
Figure 5 shows the same path from house building to the student
restaurant but the picture displayed the path using map view rather
than satellite view.
Figure 6 displays a map image of the path for the user who travels
from the KUPM to AL-THOKBAH region in ALKHOBAR city by car
and enabling the tracking application in his mobile.
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Figure 3: website interface.

Figure 4: Satellite view for user in KFUPM.

Figure 5: Map view for user in KFUPM.

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Figure 6: Map view for mobile user from KFUPM to THOKBAH region.

Conclusion
My paper proposes real-time location tracking framework
for distinctive cell phones utilizing GPS gadgets. This paper offers
location that change with the area of the moving mobile device
spatially and quickly. Our work is actualized by coordinating GPS
and GIS systems utilizing hand-held cell phones. The point is to track
the client in an outside domain. All steps of this work is explained in
detail and its principle functions clarified. In the wake of being tried
outside, client can utilize the project in any placed. The main function
of this project is to send the user location by mobile application
into the web server to allow the administrator to track the user
using the website at anytime from anywhere. This work offering
lessens advancement cost and time to give rich usefulness and
information. In paper I draft why these features can be valuable in
creating portable applications.
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9. Benson J (2001) LBS technology delivers information where and when it’s Department of Computer Engineering & Department of City and Regional
needed. Business Geographics 9: 20-22. Planning, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)

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