mTracker: A Mobile Tracking Application for Pervasive Environment

The use of mobile devices has become part of our daily routine. Recently, mobile devices like mobile phones or portable digital displays (PDAs) are equipped with global positioning system (GPS) receptors that allow us to get the device geographic position in real time. This paper describes a tracking application tool, called mobile tracker, which uses location-based services (LBs) like GPS or global system for mobile (GSM) network to track a mobile device. Through the known geographic position, this application enables the user to track a mobile device and send alerts if it is out of the radius around an interest point, previously defined by the application administrator.