APPLICATION OF ANDROID ENABLED MOBILE DEVICE FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Duarte-Rhian Nicely1 and Suresh Sankaranarayanan2,3 1Department of Computing, University of WestIndies, Kingston,  2Computing and Information Systems, Institut Teknologi Brunei, Brunei 3Department of Computing, University of WestIndies, Kingston, Jamaica 

ABSTRACT 

The advent of Mobile technology is indicative of an era in which society requires the transfer of information via a medium that facilitates mobility. Therefore, it is widely accepted that Mobile Information Systems have been in use in a number of situations where access to information is required while on the move. However, deeper analysis has revealed that mobile information systems are mainly concerned with providing generic information to users without much scope for customization. This has created a need to develop what is called Personal Information Systems. It can be viewed as an empowering tool for users based on their input into the system as they can enhance the level of information supplied to them. At the same time due to travel patterns and the availability of modern transportation facilities, people have become dependent on ‘GPS navigation and route planners/maps to move from one location to the other. With the rapid development of the Android platform, there are a number of services that can be incorporated into Personal Mobile Information Systems using GPS that have not been fully explored. The combination of mobile device technology and information systems to create a personal mobile information system still poses a number of challenges for the creation of useful applications. The development of a Personal Information System that at least takes all these issues into consideration is therefore needed in order to create a balance between design, functionality, and security of the users’ data during transmission. Location Based Services (LBS) is a key functionality in smart phone applications that is often combined with maps to enhance the user experience about their location. With all that has been said the proposed research here presents a Personal Mobile Information System (PMIS) developed on the Android platform that provides Location Based Services in the form of GPS enabled proximity alerts, and a rating system including security rating for a point of interest (POI) provided on the application which is novel and an extension of Mobile Information System. The proposed system will also contain features that will plot a route from the user’s current location to the point of interest. Based on security data provided by police authority sources, if at any point along the route there is a crime or high alert situation that has been logged, the user will be informed by way of a proximity alert which is another novelty of system. 

KEYWORDS 

GPS, LBS, PMIS, POI, Android  

More Details : http://airccse.org/journal/ijasa/papers/0613asa01.pdf