Dear readers,

As I was doing my research on Location Based Services, I wanted to make a simple proof of concept about working with GSM/UMTS cellsites. Because I had a good idea about linking those cellsites to activities you usually do when you enter specic locations, I created the software called WiFiLocations. The first target of this product was to activate WiFi on predefined locations like home or work. This could come in handy for activating my VoIP profile whenever I am on a WiFi-location!

When I found out how the get the current Cell-ID in the code, I started working on the WiFI (de)activation. I also found out how to scan the MAC-addresses of the accesspoints by using a couple of PInvokes, so I could even make the WiFi-locations more accurate. In extention to activating WiFi I also implemented the ability to (de)activate bluetooth, switch ringer style (silent/vibrate/loud) and run user specified applications when entering predefined (and named!) GSM/UMTS-cellsites.

You can find the software here, free of charge for personal use. If you want these techniques to be included in your own solution / software or want to know more about the techniques, just give us a ring and tell us what you want!

Wouter van der Veer, R&D 2go-mobile B.V.

Article dated : 7 jan 2009
Rev : 1

Settings interface

Cell based activities