Android Reverse-Scooped Us Amongst The Proximity Warning Service

I had mentioned well-nigh his crowdsourced business wait-time forecasting project. Fatih has late been working on an energy-efficient proximity alarm service for Android, as well as published his preliminary operate in M. F. Bulut, M. Demirbas. Energy Efficient Proximity Alert on Android. IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration as well as Social Networking, 2013. The abstract from that newspaper reads:

The proximity alarm service on Android is of import every bit an enabler of ubiquitous location-based services, however, it is likewise express inward this purpose due to its excessive loose energy expenditure. In this paper, nosotros acquaint the blueprint as well as implementation of an energy-efficient proximity alarm service for Android. Our method utilizes the distance to the betoken of involvement as well as the user’s transportation fashion inward gild to dynamically arrive at upwards one's heed the location-sensing interval as well as the place providers (GPS, GSM, or Wi-Fi) to endure used. We implement our method every bit a middleware service inward the Android opened upwards rootage project. Our service, for a realistic scenario, reduces GPS usage past times 96.66% as well as increases battery life fourth dimension past times 75.71% compared to the baseline proximity alarm inward Android.

Today, inward the Google I/O conference, Google unveiled a service real similar to Fatih's proximity alarm service every bit purpose of their Maps API. They utilized identical features (distance as well as transportation mode) every bit Fatih did inward his implementation.

Geofencing APIs
Lets your app setup geographic boundaries to a greater extent than or less specific locations as well as and therefore have notifications when the user enters or leaves those areas.
Simple but powerful APIs: Allows batch add-on as well as removal of geofences. Ability to grapple multiple geofences at the same time. Ability to filter alerts for both entry as well as leave of absence or entry exclusively or leave of absence only.
Optimized for battery: Adjusts place updates based on user's proximity to the geofence as well as user's modality (still, walking, driving, as well as therefore on).

I mean value this reverse-scooping is genuinely adept tidings for us. It showed that nosotros bring been working on an of import direction. And nosotros immediately bring access to a corporation proximity service from Google amongst which nosotros tin compare as well as construct on for our hereafter ideas for proximity alerts. (However, I don't know how this volition behavior upon the fate of his conference newspaper which is under-submission ;-)

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