Technology

Push-based Notifications

Push-based notification is a smart way to build spatial alerts in your application. Let’s understand push-based notification with an example:

Suppose you have an important meeting in the morning at 6:30AM and want to wake up at 6:00AM. Not being a morning person, you set an alarm clock to wake you up at 6:00AM. Your clock alarm is an example of a “push-based” notification. It rang and notified you when the time was right. A dumb clock — one that is “pull-based” would have no alarm/callback. So you would have to keep waking up every so often to check if it was 6:00AM!

Today’s location-based platforms are like that dumb alarm clock. They want you to keep checking with the server to see if something has changed. For application writers, this is a nightmare. It not only kills the battery life on the mobile device running your app, but it also increases your server usage (which you are probably paying based on the # calls that you make).

Dynamic Zones

Dynamic zones are geo-fences around an object that move with the object as it moves. For example, if you want to build a service that finds interesting events within 10 blocks of a mobile user, then you are setting up a dynamic zone around the users. Using Locomatix, you can easily set up a dynamic zones/geo-fencing services.

Location Analytics

Need to analyze location data in real-time? Locomatix is the industry leader in provide advanced real-time location analytics. See the application of Locomatix for real-time analysis of Twitter data.

Click to view the current heatmap of tweets in San Francisco, or for the contiguous US.

Location Data Management

Locomatix provides a reliable and fault-tolerant service to manage your location data. Using the state-of-the-art cloud data management methods, our infrastructure provides high data availability, fault-tolerance, and fast data access — even on very large data sets.