Location Base Services (LBS) Has Been Implemented at Stockholm Subway (Tunnelbana)

Personally, my family has a very close relationship with Stockholm. We started our life there, delivered my old son Arsya, study and others at our early time together.

Read the GPS world, Appear Networks and Cisco Inc. update, really make me impressed. As I knew, last time I was there, the LBS techniology has not been implemented at Stockholm Subway (tunnel bana).

Delivering personalised, real-time information to users in underground stations, anywhere across the Wi-Fi network. It can be explained as follow:

Based on contextual information such as time of day, job role, and current physical location, the solution is able to access the right information, which is interpreted and pushed out in real time to the right users, and to the right location. This Integrated Location Services Solution is also able to determine the location of a handheld mobile device to within a few meters, leading to a better-informed and more effective workforce.

To improve customer service through better information and better-connected employees. In addition to improving station safety, the new solution accelerates access to service disruption updates for staff working on train platforms.

What the bussiness benefit from its implementation we can get?

The Integrated Location Services Solution provides real and tangible business benefits via fast, readily available real-time information and tools.

Benefits provided by this solution include:

• Increased employee productivity
• Better informed and more effective employees
• Reduced employee training requirements
• Improved customer satisfaction
• Improved security through context aware silent alerts
• Increased sales in retail environments
• Improved asset management and security through strategic positioning of connected devices, users or equipment
  

The Stockholm Tunnelbana has three lines encompassing 110km of track and 100 stations of which 64km and 55 stations are underground. Several of the deep underground stations are cut into solid rock which were left with cave-like ceilings. The builders carved fascinating artistic objects out of the rock.

Here is some picture down to subway station,

at Husby Station ( the nearest station where we used to live)

at friedhemsplan ( the closest to the Indonesian Embassy)

at Tensta (where the hallal supermarket is)

reference:

http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/partners/news/2006/pr_prod_05-02.html

http://lbs.gpsworld.com/gpslbs/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=325123

http://www.appearnetworks.com/cisco-location-services