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Locating Friends and family Using Mobile Phones With

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Ghaith Bader Al-Suwaidi, Mohamed Jamal Zemerly

AICCSA 2009

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Outline

• Goal

• System Architecture

• Functional Specifications

• Theoretical Foundation

• Testing

• Discussion

• Conclusion

Goal

• Presents a mobile application based on providing LBS using GPS– Helps users to locate their family members– Receive alerts when friends are nearby

System Architecture

• Client tier (mobile)– GPS

• Server tier

• Database tier

Functional Specifications

• Mobile Functions

• Server Functions

• Database Functions

Mobile Functions

• User Registration• User Login• Add member• Family/Friends Request• GPS Connector• Coordinates Retriever and Update• Get Member Location• Get Friend Alert

Server Functions

• Registration Processes

• Login Processes

• Member Addition Processes

• Requests Processes

• Updating Location Processes

• Getting Location Processes

• Altering Processes

Database Functions

• Users table

• Users friends and family lists table

• Locations table

Theoretical Foundation

• GPS– Positions– Coordinates format– Calculating distances using coordinates– GPS sources of error

• JAVA API

Testing

• System validation & verification

• Evaluation

System validation & verification

Evaluation

Evaluation

Discussion

• The system built is portable

• The system can run on mobiles that have a built in GPS receiver

• the Application size is small

• GPS does not work indoor

• Provide time of update.

Conclusion

• Future work– Include maps– Provide a mobile SOS ( Save Our Souls)– Create other lists