University of Macau Abstract TOURIST PLATFORM BASED ON GSM LOCATION SYSTEM by Han Bao Min Thesis Supervisor: Professor Chen Wei Ji Electrical and Electronics Engineering Macao is a famous tourist attraction. Besides the traveling group, more and more individuals come into Macao for joy. Without guide, they will be in trouble sometimes. So there is an urgent requirement for a tourist platform which provide tourist location and tourism information service. So far as we know, there is no such system be used. Little company provides mobile phone location service, but the function is simplex. Little GSM Operator provides the information search based on location, but people need to manual input some symbol and code request information in mobile phone. It is very trouble. Accordingly, I introduce a GSM location technology into tourism service in a creative way. We develop the Tourist Platform based on GSM location technique. In order to reduce investment, I choose the CellID location method and take tourists’ mobile phone as electronic guide. Tourist Platform contains two parts: Client and Server. My energy is focus on the Client program design. Because OS of mobile phones are diverse, there are several editions Client program. Basically, the Client program contains three parts: Network parameters CellID acquirement, Request information acquirement (friendly interface), Data sending. The CellID acquirement is the difficulty of the Client program. I and Bian Kai finish the Server part together. I take charge of data collection of Server database. Bian Kai helps me design the Server program. With the help of SAGEM OT290 test mobile phone, I chose three places in Macao peninsula, Taipa, Coloane to test GSM signal. Through the road-test, I get the average accuracy of CellID location technology in Macao is 100-200 meters. Low investment and multi-function are the characteristic of Tourist Platform. Just install a Client program on the mobile phone, it can do positioning and information search. Friend interface make the operation very easy. Visitor can get useful tourism information, such as tourism spot, hotel near the visitor, the nearest restaurant and traffic line information and so on. In the same time, according to the tourist's location, the Tourist Platform will provide the corresponding tourism spot information to the visitor. Emergency call positioning, elder and children monitoring, vehicle management and other location based service can come true under the Tourist Platform. CellID location technology is suitable for densely populated city, like Macao and Hong Kong. So Tourist Platform has a widely market. Key Words: GSM location technology, mobile phone, CellID, tourist information