Applications of GPRS

Applications of GPRS

1. Applications of GPRS R.Uma Selvi , MCA., M.Phil. , Assistant Professor Department of Computer Applications V.V.Vanniaperumal College for Women

2. There are many applications suitable for GPRS Many of them are of generic type and some of them are specific to GPRS Generic applications are Information Services Internet access email Web Browsing Generic Applications Applications of GPRS

3. They offer content like Sports scores weather Flight information News headlines Prayer reminders etc … Due to higher bandwidth, mobile Internet browsing will be better suited to GPRS Mobile commerce and Banking over wireless is another generic applications . Some Indian banks are offering banking over GPRS/WAP

4. GPRS Specific Applications Chat Very popular service. Groups of like-minded people use chat services as a means to communicate and discuss matters of common interest Use different chat services: Through internet(Yahoo, Google, ICQ) SMS GPRS will offer ubiquitous chat by integrating Internet chat and wireless chat using SMS and WAP

5. Multimedia Service Multimedia objects like photographs, pictures, postcards, greeting cards, presentations, static web pages can be sent and received over the mobile network. Moving images help to monitor parking lots or building sites for intruders or thieves. It can also be used by law enforcement agents, journalists, and insurance agents for sending images of accident site Doctors can use these applications to send pictures of patients from a health center for expert help

6. Virtual Private Network GPRS used to offer VPN services. Many bank ATM machines use VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) to connect the ATM system with the banks server. Bandwidth in GPRS is higher, so many banks migrating VSAT to GPRS-based networks

7. Personal Information Management Personal diary, address book, appointment are useful to mobile individual. Some of these are kept in the phone, some in the intranet. GPRS can be used to integrate address book, the diary of the phone with diary at the home office

8. Job Sheet Dispatch GPRS used to assign and communicate job sheets from office-based staff to mobile field staff When customer requiring a visit by field sales or service representative can then be escalated to those mobile workers. If job dispatch applications combined with vehicle positioning applications, nearest available suitable personnel can be deployed to serve a customer

9. Unified Messaging It uses single mailbox for all messages(voice mail, fax, e-mail, SMS, MMS) With the various mailboxes in unified messaging systems allow variety of access methods to recover message of different types Some use text-to-voice system to read e-mail, faxes over a normal phone line. Alter the user on the terminal type of their choice when messages are received.

10. Vechicle Positioning This application integrates GPS that tell people where they are. GPS is a free-to-use global network Vehicle positioning application can be used to deliver several services such as Remote vehicle diagnostics Adhoc stolen vehicle tracking New rental car fleet tariffs In India this is popular in logistics industry

11. Location –Based Services And Telematics To link push or pull information services with a user’s location Examples: Hotel Restaurant finders Roadside assistance City specific news Intelligent Transportation System(ITS) are built around GPRS & GPS. Location can be determined either through GPS or cell identification from operator