Author : Ku. Neha Ghatole and P.P.Pawade

Location Based Service (LBS) is a kind of service that helps in providing the geographical situation of person. By using services it is easy for the users to search and locate other persons, vehicles, resources and to provide location-sensitive services, also to track their own location immediately. The request for location can supervise in the mobile device or in another entity like application provider or network operator. These services represent a novel challenge both conceptually and technically. Providing users with added value to mere location information is a complex task. People always keep cell phones, laptops, tablets etc. A lot of information related to the user of the mobile device can collected. The knowledge of mobile user’s location can improve the class of services and applications that can be provided to the cell phone user. These types of applications and services are termed as location-based services. This paper focuses on LBS in detail ,their architecture and different components of LBS also understanding the context part with different levels of adaption in location-based services and how adaption responding their services to context.

Keywords: Adaption, Context, Location Based Services(LBS),LBS Architecture, LBS Components

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.5, No.2 (April-2015)