The Heywow System for Location Based Services: CombiningNavigation, Distributed Services and Intelligent Mobile Devices

Summary Location based services have earned significant attention and importance during the last few years. Their development is being fostered increasingly by the development of new, generic platforms. The Heywow system is one such platform and is being developed by DLR and other partners from research and industry. It makes use, amongst others, of the programmability of end-devices, implicit positioning through the use of short-range wireless (such as Bluetooth). The questions which arise concerning the use if heterogeneous networks, the provisioning of context adapted services, security and localisation and navigation define the research fields within the project. This paper serves as an overview of the contributions to the field.