» GIS Solutions for Communications



» Location Based Service

Do you work in a taxi cab company that uses mobile communications systems? Do you have a fleet of vehicles that you need to track to manage your logistics? We are here to provide you with the best consultancy to ensure that your system is fully integrated with GIS to have a full solution that allows you to manage your resources through Location-Based Services (LBS).

Location-based services (LBS) employ accurate, real-time positioning to connect users to nearby points of interest, advise them of current conditions such as traffic and weather, or provide routing and tracking information--all via wireless devices. The exploding LBS market offers exciting new opportunities involving geographic information systems (GIS).

If you work with a large rental cars inventory, many of your customers would be visitors to the city. As they drive, they would like to be told about near restaurants or attractions in the area as they are driving along. This allows you to capture customer satisfaction of your main rental car service for providing such extra service along-side with car navigation. GIS has opened the minds of many businesses and tamper into markets unthinkable before the coming of the technology. G&L’s main aim is to open the unlimited possibilities that GIS technology can offer to your business.

» Media & Adevertising

G&L can provide the media industry with GIS tools that enables them to walkthrough and flythrough 3D city models for video production. In journalism, maps are very important due to several factors. Mainly, if there is news of an event, then the event must have a location. Imagine where you can have a news site that is location-based allowing users to view the news of a specific continent, country, city, township, and even a community. With such capabilities, news reporting can be very effective. Special journalists may have to report and analyze news based on location. The effectiveness of news casting can be taken to the next level.

» Telecommunications

G&L can help keep your business in-line with the latest technology in the telecommunications field. You need to bring a wide coverage for GSM as you can do. You will therefore need to know where to place your GSM stations and locate them strategically on a place where you are allowed to. Such an analysis can be done through GIS.

Telecommunications services in this era continue to develop models in the geographic information systems (GIS) environment for personal communications services (PCS) and local multipoint distribution systems (LMDS). A GIS efficiently captures, stores, updates, manipulates, analyzes, and displays all forms of geographically referenced information. The use of GIS has grown substantially over the past several years. As a result, databases necessary for telecommunication system analysis are becoming available in forms easily imported into the GIS environment. These databases, including terrain, roads, communications infrastructure, building locations and footprints, land type and use, and many others, can be maintained in commonly used and available relational database management systems (RDBMS) that can be connected to the GIS or placed into the GIS RDBMS. This greatly reduces the amount of database development necessary in PCS/LMDS modeling.

As the frequency of an application increases, the level of detail required to describe the path also increases. At PCS and LMDS frequencies, we need to know the location of trees and buildings, the kind of vegetation a signal is penetrating, and the shape and materials used in buildings. Software available at ITS allows us to import digital stereo photographs or other remote sensing data taken from aircraft at relatively low altitudes or spacecraft and convert these images to three dimensional models of the region. This highly accurate surface is then imported into the GIS PCS/LMDS model.

The PCS/LMDS model under development at ITS lets a user select a region of interest with a database generated or imported into the model. These environment and analysis results can be displayed in two or three dimensions. A user can create a database of transmitters and antenna patterns from which to create analysis scenarios. The GIS software reads the location of the transmitter from the map and stores it in the transmitter definition table. Antenna patterns can be imported, entered in table form, or drawn on the screen by a user.