Location Based Services Value Chain
Location Based Services (LBS) are increasingly becoming
popular especially in the consumer market. Due to inherent capability in
devices to provide the user location and penetration of smartphones, Location
based products and services are readily adopted by the consumers and
enterprises as well.
Location Based Services take the geo-spatial data as an
input from the resource or a device and provides the services that are relevant
to that location. Multiple approaches can be used to locate a resource and
provide the context based service to the user. In this Blog I will limit my
discussion to the Device-Centric approach in which the LBS Provider gives the
app to the subscriber, who then uses it to check-in at a specific location.
Check-in is the term commonly used to refer the arrival of a user at a particular
location.
