Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 259 pages) : color illustrations. |
Series |
Chapman & Hall/CRC computer and information science series |
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Chapman & Hall/CRC computer and information science series.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-255) and index. |
Summary |
"The book provides a comprehensive introduction to developing location-based information systems based on GPS-enabled cellular phones. It describes all of the components needed to develop a location-based information system and provides readers with the opportunity to build an example application. Chapters cover obtaining a user's location, storing and retrieving data, communicating over a network, Java ME Web services, and visualizing data. In the theoretical chapters, the authors address location provider architectures, the hardware and software architecture of a mobile phone, the Java ME platform, and other important programming aspects for mobile phones"-- Provided by publisher. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. The mobile phone -- 3. The Java platform micro edition (Java ME) -- 4. MIDlet development -- 5. Other important programming aspects -- 6. Obtaining the user's position -- 7. Storing and retrieving the data : the database -- 8. Sending and receiving data : communications -- 9. Java ME Web services -- 10. System administration -- 11. Data visualization -- 12. Processing the data -- A. Installing the software development environments (SDE). |
Subject |
Location-based services.
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COMPUTERS -- Web -- Web Programming.
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Location-based services. (OCoLC)fst01747150
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Engineering.
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Electrical engineering.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Wightman, Pedro M.
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Perez, Alfredo Jose.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Labrador, Miguel A. Location-based information systems. Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2011 9781439848548 (DLC) 2010033550 (OCoLC)606777066 |
ISBN |
9781439848555 (electronic bk.) |
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1439848556 (electronic bk.) |
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9781466550728 |
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1466550724 |
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9781439848548 |
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1439848548 |
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