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Modern technology makes it possible to develop applications that determine the position of any object. Using affordable off-the-shelf components combined with internet-based applications, we developed the Bata Positioning System (BPS), a real time system for tracking moving objects. It has a focus on accessibility to the user and system scalability. BPS combines the power and flexibility of satellite positioning, mobile telecommunications and open standards compliant internet applications in a unique way, and was first applied for the Batavierenrace, the world’s largest relay race.
We will first briefly introduce the Batavierenrace and then explain how the wish to maintain an overview of this race led to the development of the BPS 1.0 prototype. Its basic requirements and general setup as well as the system architecture will be discussed. It will be explained how further refinement of this architecture led to the current stable version BPS 2.0. We discuss how the BPS 2.0 system principally provides Location Services, but has a great potential to further grow into into a genuine real time Location Based Service (LBS). In the last section, the prototype BPS 3.0 system providing such LBS functionality is presented.
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Köbben, B.J., Boekestein, D., Ekkebus, S.P., Uithol, P.G. (2007). Bata Positioning System - A real time tracking system for the world’s largest relay race. In: Gartner, G., Cartwright, W., Peterson, M.P. (eds) Location Based Services and TeleCartography. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36728-4_36
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