Garmin International Inc. announced the availability of the Garmin LBS Toolkit, a flexible location-based service platform that can serve as the engine behind third party LBS applications. The Garmin LBS Toolkit incorporates Garmin’s proven navigation API, local search, real-time content delivery services, and mobile advertising delivery services, into one powerful platform.
"This announcement marks the launch of our broader LBS strategy by opening up our LBS technology to third party application developers around the world," said Charles Morse, Garmin’s director of mobile and PND marketing. "Adding Garmin’s LBS Toolkit to mobile applications can enhance the value and utility of virtually any location aware mobile application, from enterprise and fleet management, real estate, medical, family tracking, pedestrian, automotive, local search, and many others."
The launch customers for Garmin LBS Toolkits are Xora and Agilis leading GPS tracking and mobile resource management software providers. These companies will leverage Garmin’s navigation API to deliver turn-by-turn navigation experience to mobile works, thus further improving their productivity. Thanks to the Garmin LBS Toolkit, mobile workers can enter a specific street address into their mobile phone and receive turn-by-turn, text-to-speech, voice prompted directions to their destination. If a driver misses a turn, Garmin’s navigation technology will automatically recalculate a new route to the destination. In addition, the mobile worker’s office can dispatch the worker to the next service location by sending a destination to the phone, which the worker can accept and route to with the push of a button.
The Garmin LBS Toolkit is a proven technology platform currently in use in Garmin Mobile, a feature-rich consumer application delivering maps, turn- by-turn navigation, and dynamic content such as Weather, Traffic, and Gas Prices on select handsets.
About Garmin
Garmin International Inc. is a member of the Garmin Ltd. group of companies, which designs and manufactures navigation, communication and information devices – most of which are enabled by GPS technology. Garmin is a leader in the general aviation and consumer GPS markets and its products serve aviation, marine, outdoor recreation, automotive, wireless and OEM applications. Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and its principal subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
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