Find A Person

One of the most controversial features of location-based services is mobile positioning, or knowing the exact location of the person that a phone user wants to seek. Finding a person through LBS is done through the phone network provider’s approximation where a certain mobile phone, and thus the owner of the mobile phone is situated.

In finding the location of a person using LBS, the seeker’s mobile phone sends a message to her service provider whose network in turn measures the power levels and antenna patterns to detect the exact location of the subject. The calculations and the process to determine where the mobile phone and mobile phone’s user reside are complicated, and the execution is done through various levels of estimation before the exact location is found out.

To put it more shortly, network providers use a technology wherein signals between neighboring cell sites communicate to come up with a measurement of the location. The chance of knowing the person’s exact location weakens if her mobile phone resides outside urban places. There are less base stations located in rural areas, and this obviously affects the capability of service providers to determine locations precisely.

Finding a person through wireless technology is a controversial topic, as the notion of privacy and personal security is put in danger. This is why service providers implement strict policies and measures before offering to their subscribers their positioning feature. Top in the list of these measures is that the user must explicitly permit other individuals to detect her location at anytime.