OPLITOP: A localized broacast media

Abstract

© 2014 IEEE. Nowadays, social media is an important thing in people's daily lives because it has become the communication means to convey information such as news, events, and advertisements. However, such the social media only delivers and feeds information to the users based on his or her social network, closed-friends, or predefined preferences but not by their location and time. With overwhelming amount of information available in social media today, it becomes also impossible to search for information that is time and location-relevant. Therefore, we see a need to create a mobile application that can provide users interesting and relevant information based on user's preferences, location and time and thus develops a mobile application, namely OPLITOP. We hope that the developed application could serve as a localized broadcast media that can notify users of critical and dangerous situations that may be relevant to the users. OPLITOP is first developed on the Android operating system and it uses several software tools such as Google maps, phpMyAdmin web server and Eclipse for implementation. Moreover, in addition to allowing users to manual input information, we also implement data crawler techniques that can automatically fetch data from publicly available databases (e.g. official websites, calendars and possibly Facebook events).