Location-Based Service (LBS)

Location-based service

A location-based service (LBS) is a software-level service that uses location data to control features. As such LBS is an information service and has a number of uses in social networking today as information, in entertainment or security, which is accessible with mobile devices through the mobile network and which uses information on the geographical position of the mobile device.

LBS can be used in a variety of contexts, such as health, indoor object search, entertainment, work, personal life, etc.

LBS is critical to many businesses as well as government organizations to drive real insight from data tied to a specific location where activities take place. The spatial patterns that location-related data and services can provide Is one on its most powerful and useful aspect where location is a common denominator in all of these activities and can be leveraged to better understand patterns and relationships.

LBS include service to identify a location of a person or object, such as discovering the nearest banking cash machine(ATM) or the whereabouts of a friend or employee. LBS include parcel tracking and vehicle tracking services. LBS can include mobile commerce when taking the form of coupons or advertising directed at customers based on their current location. They include personalized whether services and even location-based games. They are an example of telecommunication convergence.