ICiNG Location Client

Current Local Positioning Systems Newsletter offers an overview of the ICiNG Location Client. ICiNG (Innovative Cities for Next Generation) is a european project that develops the concept of a “thin-skinned City”. That is a city that will be sensitive to both the citizen and the environment through the use of mobile devices, universal access gateways, social software and environmental sensors. Currently, Dublin, Barcelona and Helsinki to act as “city laboratories” for researching, evaluating and demonstrating technologies and services using intelligence in the environment.

ICiNG Location Client will use a fusion of methods of determining a mobile devices location. This article gives an overview on how the client will work in general with the considered location-based technologies and approaches.

Relation to my thesis: I am currently (unfortunately) only remotely related to the ICiNG Project. I am interested in their approach of urban mobility data collection and how these information can be delivered back to citizens. In this project “lingo” is is called
- Location Based Services that interact with the citizen and the environment
- ‘Urban Mediator’ system for citizen-led services Research-Based Evidence of community use