Responses from location-based services differ based on the location of the
Mobiliser Platform customer requesting the service.
Typical location-based services are:
- Finding locations of the nearest ATMs
- Finding advertisements of nearby stores
- Sending service-outage notifications to all subscribed customers in an area
- Verifying that payer and payee are in the same area for a transaction
- Verifying that a payer does not travel more than 1000km in one hour (fraud
prevention)
- Tracking consumers
Typically, mobile users are interested in finding the nearest location of certain types
of services. Services return lists of results, in ascending order based on distance.
Users may filter results based on:
- Business type, such as gas station, ATM, grocery store, or movie theater
- Merchant name, such as Safeway, Target, or Walmart
- Maximum distance from current location
- Maximum number of results