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Location-Based Services Platforms

AltaMap GeoCoder (GeoMicro, Inc.)

AltaMap GeoCoder will help you enhance your location-based applications. Adding geographical data is the first step in mapping and visualizing your business data. Key features of AltaMap GeoCoder include:

  • Nation-wide street level geocoding engine
  • Reverse and intersection geocoding
  • Batch or interactive address matching
  • Fuzzy-logic address parsing
  • Automated address correction
  • Seamless integration with AltaMap and AltaMap Server

AltaMap LBS (GeoMicro, Inc.)

AltaMap Location Based Service (LBS) Platform is an integrated suite of mapping applications and maps for developers that want to add location intelligence to their applications. The AltaMap LBS Platform offers the:

  • The broadest set of features and analytical tools
  • The fastest and most scaleable query and map rendering engines
  • Easiest to use platform, and
  • Ability to deploy on both desktop and web based solutions
  • AtlaMap LBS is built on four key components:
    • AltaMap Server and/or Desktop
    • AltaMap Geocoder/Reverse Geocoding Engine
    • AltaMap Routing Engine
    • AltaMap Street

AltaMap Route (GeoMicro, Inc.)

AltaMap Route is a nation-wide routing engine designed from the ground up to meet the most stringent requirement demanded by today's location based applications. Key features include:

  • Nation-wide street level routing engine
  • Turn by turn driving direction
  • Quickest route
  • Shortest route
  • Avoid highway or toll roads
  • Optimize route with Realtime traffic conditions (optional)
  • Seamless integration with AltaMap Desktop and AltaMap Server

Autodesk Location Services (Autodesk)

Autodesk Location Services provides a complete solution that enables wireless carriers and operators to quickly and reliably offer location-based services to their subscribers without costly development efforts. Autodesk MobileConnect extends the Connect solution to mobile devices, offering personalized location-sensitive information services using existing carrier infrastructure, providing a complete value-added data services solution to wireless operators. Autodesk Telematics car service is activated at the touch of a button that generates a SMS message that is sent to the TargaSys contact center. The message contains the subscriber's location details and triggers a personalized database that helps the operator respond to the individual's need, anywhere in Europe. Autodesk Location-Enabled SMS and MMS solution integrates the Ericsson SMS Gateway and Autodesk LocationLogic, a middleware deployment platform for the delivery of location-based services to mobile devices, in a single environment that links to the Ericsson MPS (Mobile Positioning System) installed in the operator's network.

Canvas Location-Enabling Server (Telenity)

Canvas LES is the critical link in the delivery chain for location-based services. It interoperates with the mobile operator's existing mobile positioning centers and provides a secure platform between the location-based services and the subscribers who use them. It offers maximum flexibility with all wireless network technologies, switch architecture, and location technologies. With core service delivery engines, content management tools and rich set of simple location services, Canvas LES accelerates the development of location-based services while reducing the cost of deployment per service, thus helping operators to compete.

Cellocate (Cell-Loc Inc.)

Cel-Loc, a leader in the wireless location industry, is the developer of Cellocate, a family of products that enable location-based services.

Celltick Platform (Celltick Technologies)

Celltick offers streaming media solutions for mobile operators with customization, location-based and personalization capabilities.

Cloudberry (Air-Trak)

Enterprise Services: Asset Tracking Services/Demos: Cloudberry is a low-cost, easy-to-use tracking and messaging system that allows you to monitor your fleet's activity from a desktop PC. Cloudberry brings together GPS technology and the power of the Internet to create a turnkey solution that allows you enhance fleet efficiency and maximize profits. Everything you need to use Cloudberry services is included in every package: Hardware, software, and documentation. All you need is an Internet connection, PC, and a vehicle to track!

Drill Down Server (Telcontar)

The Drill Down Server enables a variety of location-based applications with access to maps and other spatial data. The applications can be delivered to multiple devices, including cell phones, computer workstations, web browsers, PDA's, Pocket PC's, and vehicle telematics units.

ESRI Location-Based Services (ESRI)

ESRI's ArcLocation Solutions answer the need for wireless location-based services (LBS) in an increasingly mobile society. These solutions improve how mobile users communicate and use geographic information with wireless technology. ArcLocation Solutions provide mobile operators and application developers with the services and tools they need to introduce new location-based service applications and enhance existing ones. ArcLocation Solutions include ESRI's ArcWeb Services as well as a Connector and a Java mobile toolkit. These provide flexibility in choosing how you implement your LBS solution. Also, professional services and hosting services are available to help you with your implementation.

ESRI Mobile Solutions

MapConnect (WaveMarket)

MapActive Connect™ recreates the full functionality and ease of use of Internet map sites on a mobile device. WaveMarket uses its own proprietary vector-based mapping format and engine to allow highly compressed maps to be downloaded in real time to mobile handsets, significantly driving increased user adoption and revenues. A comprehensive platform that supports both BREW and Java, MapActive Connect provides intuitive, extensible interfaces for delivering dynamic, location-tagged content on mobile devices.

Envinsa Location Platform (MapInfo)

Envinsa is a suite of location capabilities that enable organizations to integrate location into existing applications as well as to create and deliver new location-enabled applications made to order by a specific business unit. Using Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, and Web Services, Envinsa delivers its capabilities in a robust, highly scalable platform. From the ground up, it's designed to be integrated into and managed inside a standard IT environment. Envinsa is flexible enough to support hundreds of location-enhanced applications, and concise enough to provide its capabilities in neatly packaged APIs, greatly reducing development cycles.

LOC-AID.net (Datumcom Corporation)

LOC-AID.net's Datumcom LBS (Location Based Services) solution uses PDE (Position Determination Entity) functionality to assist in tracking any terminal device through an existing wireless public network. This solution provides users the ability to quickly manage any situation, including responding to an emergency, locating a friend, managing traffic problems, or finding points of interest, all through the convenience of using a cell phone device. Both CDMA and GSM communication platforms are available.

Location Engine (Kivera Inc.)

Kivera Location Engine (KLE)technology offers the utmost in flexibility, allowing custom-tailored solutions including proximity searches, yellow page queries, mapping and driving directions for wireless carriers, logistics and telematics organizations, on-board navigation companies, and web, voice and wireless portals. It provides the technology platform for client applications to request and receive location, routing, point-of-interest information, as well as generate Internet-ready maps.

Location Network Engine (Way Mobile Ltd)

Way Mobile provides a Location Network Engine platform to enable Service Operators to brand and operate Permission Based, Passive LBS service. Services can be uniquely skinned, operate custom billing models and operate from any domain. Permission and Privacy controls are built to operate both Enterprise and Consumer focused services. The service uses the Microsoft MapPoint mapping service and covers Europe and North America. Live Mobile Network Operators include T-Mobile, O2, Vodafone and Orange for the UK, other international operators can be included on provision of API. Live demonstration of the services is available on www.wayhey.com, but may be delivered with alternative presentation layers.

LocationAgent (Mapflow)

LocationAgent is a carrier grade XML and JAVA based infrastructure platform supporting wireless carriers and portals in the delivery of location based services to their subscribers.

MapConnect (WaveMarket)

MapActive Connect™ recreates the full functionality and ease of use of Internet map sites on a mobile device. WaveMarket uses its own proprietary vector-based mapping format and engine to allow highly compressed maps to be downloaded in real time to mobile handsets, significantly driving increased user adoption and revenues. A comprehensive platform that supports both BREW and Java, MapActive Connect provides intuitive, extensible interfaces for delivering dynamic, location-tagged content on mobile devices.

MapInfo MapXtreme Java Edition (MapInfo)

MapInfo's powerful Java-based Internet mapping server for broad deployment of mapping applications.

Mobile Positioning System (Ericsson)

Mobile Positioning System (MPS) is Ericsson's name for a location system that determines the geographical position of mobile subscribers. By combining positional mechanisms with location specific information, MPS truly offers customized personal communication services through the mobile phone or other mobile devices.

OnDemand (IntelliWhere)

Enterprise Services: Mobile Workforce: Mobile Worker PDA Demo: A mobile worker for a sign company uses IntelliWhere OnDemand on a personal digital assistant to locate assets and view maps from the corporate geographic information system. After completing a sign inspection, new details are recorded for future upload back to the corporate system. This is a self-running movie demonstration that you can open or save to your computer. It will take a few minutes to load (1MB).

PanGo Location Management Platform (PanGo Networks)

Designed and built with a service-oriented architecture (SOA), the PanOS Platform 3.0 is a location management platform for enabling, managing and integrating location and related device mobility information. It is an open, Web service-based development framework consisting of Location Source Providers that accept location data into the system from a wide variety of sources, a core integration platform for managing and synthesizing location and device data and related asset information, and a rich set of Location Services for building and deploying location aware applications

SpatialFX (ObjectFX Corporation)

SpatialFX is a unique Java-based platform that enables the dynamic integration of location and business data, delivered in interactive, geographic and logical displays. Deploy on any client-side platform, from wireless devices to the thinnest web clients to the highest bandwidth enterprise network. SpatialFX Components are a set of high-level tools focused on map generation, display and interaction, comprised of JavaBeans Components, a rich Java Class Library and application utilities. SpatialFX Server is a highly scalable spatial server that enables thousands of users to access SpatialFX solutions in virtually any client-server, Internet, intranet, extranet and wireless environment.

The @Road AppSmart Platorm

@Road AppSmart™ is an advanced on-demand technology and service delivery platform that combines @Road location intelligent technology with best practices in business processes, procedures, provisioning, monitoring and management—as well as 10 years of @Road know-how from being a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS).

The Xypoint Location Platform (XLP) (TeleCommunication Systems, TCS)

The Xypoint Location Platform (XLP) is a standards-based solution that enables mobile operators to offer enhanced location-based data services (such as 411/Where's the Nearest, Buddy Finder, and Fleet Tracking) that enhance subscriber offerings, increase ARPU and improve customer loyalty.

WaveAlert (WaveMarket, Inc.)

WaveAlert™ is the only platform offering active, as opposed to passive, alerting for increased location accuracy. For the first time, users can be notified when they are near something important to them, like a speed trap or a good friend who happens to be in their neighborhood, and carriers have a platform that solves the tremendous technical challenges required for alerting services. W ith patented algorithms that predict the location of all tracked assets in the network in real time, WaveAlert improves the performance of alerting applications by actively requesting location information from the user’s handset. In addition to dramatically reducing location polling rates and solving the problems associated with launching alert-based LBS, WaveAlert also reduces network costs (Source: WaveMarket).

Webraska Products (Webraska Mobile Technologies)

Webraska provides integrated location based services, telematics, navigation and mobile enterprise solutions:

  • SmartZone GeoSpatial PLatform - enables the provision of feature-rich location-based services and telematics applications through the industry's most comprehensive set of navigation, mapping, spatial searching, and geocoding functions via XML and Java APIs.
  • SmartZone Application PLatform - works with a carriers' GMLC (Gateway Mobile Location Center) to interlink various wireless LBS services to provide a continuous user experience.
  • SmartZone Applications - allow wireless network operators and wireless service providers to rapidly deploy highly convenient and personalized Yellow Pages, POI Finder, Maps, Directions and Community location-based wireless services, supporting multiple devices, geographies and languages.
  • SmartSMS Applications - provide high-usage, location relevant Yellow Pages, POI Finder, Directions and Community Services to active SMS users via a 'pull messaging interface'.
  • SmartZone DataSets - created from local, national and international suppliers of digital mapping, real-time traffic, point-of-interest and public transport network data.
  • IbDN Tracking - is web-based application which aggregates sequential position reports from IbDN-Lite clients and displays / routes them on a web interface.
  • other

WiFi Watchdog (Newbury Networks)

WiFi Watchdog is an enterprise Java, server-based application that works with any standard WLAN deployment to detect, secure and monitor the location of all 802.11 traffic. It identifies any type of 802.11 device - authorized or unauthorized - as well as rogue access points and then immediately alerts IT personnel of any potential intruder actions. WiFi Watchdog is comprised of the breakthrough tracking and monitoring capabilities of Newbury Networks' award-winning LocaleServer application platform. Together with Newbury Networks' LocalePoint appliances, WiFi Watchdog delivers the first step in securing both wired-side and wireless networks - from departmental usage of WiFi-enabled devices such as laptops, PDAs and access points to full enterprise-wide deployments.

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