Local Positioning System (LPS)/Location Based Service (LBS)

Local positioning system uses the application of RFID and has many applications in different fields worldwide. In fields, farmers can make the use of Local positioning system to automatically put machines and implements in row crops with good travel speed and high accuracy.

The performance of accurate hilling, band spraying, cultivation, and the placement of fertilizers would improve considerably with the help of local positioning system. The local positioning system is also called the indoor localization and it is a very well known problem, which had been in limelight for many years now. The problem occurs until the position of the object is not identified. When the position of the product is identified, it provides many helpful applications. It provides the information to impart directions to the tourists so that they can exhibit properly in a new city. Its application has also been found in medical field. A nurse can easily direct a patient what to do in case of emergency or how to take his medicine.

Local positioning system helps to know about the positioning of various objects. Like in a super store which is full of so many different items. The system can help in knowing the position of a particular object of interest. These systems have excellent accuracy. The cost attached to adoption of this technology is high but the results obtained are also fruitful. In order to avoid any problem of mismatching with different frequency waves in use so the system uses low frequency of 433.9 MHz.