Implementation of web services for ILBS

Abstract

LBS (Location Based Service) prevails throughout the everyday life. Navigation, logistics, fleet control, POI (Point of Interest), and so on are all types of LBS. LBS is so useful that it should be available everywhere including inside of a building, subway stations, underground shopping malls, and downtown of a big city. Such LBSs provided inside of a building is called ILBS (Indoor LBS). A web service is a piece of software or a database published on Internet so that it can be used in web application development in the standard manner. Therefore, web service is deemed to be a promising technique of developing a web application. This paper introduces our implementation of web services of elementary functions of ILBS system. Indoor positioning, rendering drawings, playing contents are a few of such functions. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.