Location-based on-board system for e-tourism: Implementation for Ford SYNC

Abstract

Nowadays location-based services become more and more popular. People travel from one location to another and usually would like to know information about places of interests around. Integration of location-based services with vehicles onboard systems opens new possibilities for delivering useful information about places of interests around using the vehicle multimedia system and voice control possibilities. The paper presents location-based on-board system for e-tourism and its implementation for Ford SYNC. The system consists of several services that find, extract and process potentially useful for the tourist information about places of interests around and provide it through user-friendly vehicle interface.