KPN start locatiegebonden, mobile service
KPN is a proof begun with locatiegebonden services (location based services). Via the mobile telephone, information can be claimed about lines in the neighborhood, train times and taxicentrales or the local house offer.
The users is not firstly necessary in to lead where he self finds: the location automatically is fixed via the dichtstbijzijnde mobile antennae. How more antennae in the neighborhood are, how more exact the orientation. The accuracy can variren of 5 kilometers on the countryside until 100 meters in the city.
The locatiegebonden information is furnished by a number of partners, below which the ANWB, Meteo Consultation, Excortgids, telephone guide, the DUTCH RAILWAYS, Routenet and Funda. These partners get the locatiedata otherwise just after the customers for that explicit permission for have granted.
The service is offered in first authority at users of i-fashion, under the name i-locate. The proof lasts will become ten months, after which the service gevalueerd.