GAP-ANALYTICS (GEOLOCATION AND PLACES-ANALYTICS)

Yogesh R. Jadhav, Sunilkumar R.Yadav, Gautam J. Kale, Atul R. Barve

Abstract: World is the full of interesting places and can be confusing and overwhelming at the same time. There can be instances where people might get lost or enter unsafe areas unknowingly. To address such issue, GAP-Analytics (Geolocation and PlaceAnalytics) is an android app and a Web application that helps its users to know their current location, search for places of their interest like hotels, police-station, hospitals etc. around them. Using android as its platform is beneficial looking at the market share of android OS as it can reach out many people. It will help data analysts to get statistics of activity of people around a geographic location from online dash board by maintaining the privacy of the users. Smart phones are great devices which are intelligent and if used properly, it can save us from a lot of unpleasant situations. By using location services from android environment, this app provides location features. This app uses Google location API V2, Google Places API and Google Maps api in its android client application. On the server side it uses windows ASP.NET Web Services to serve client requests

Keywords: LBS, Geolocation, Geofencing, GPS, API, WCF, REST

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0501007