Global Industry Insight: Location Based Services (LBS) Market Development and Demand Forecast to 2020

Location based services refer to services offered through the mobile devices to take into account the geographical location of the devices. Such services facilitate improved insight on businesses and their customer base over analytics.

The global Location based services market is driven by a number of factors, including surging market of smartphone and tablets in the developing countries, availability of low-cost GPS devices, advancement in analytical capabilities in communication technology, increasing use of vehicle tracking and management and the expansion of 3G and 4G internet services in developing markets.

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Consumer speculation over the exposer of their personal data, consumer anxiety over being followed and tracked, and lack of consumer awareness about location based services, are some of the major hindrances for the growth of the location based services market.

The potential market opportunity for location based services lies in the rise of mobile devices and accessing customers' desire for WiFi services for optimizing customer engagement, increasing number of visits and reside times of consumers, facilitating remote assistance, and inspiring additional purchases through relevant communications. Moreover, LBS can also be used in retail "showrooming" (exploring in-store products, comparing prices online, and then buying them from a competitor online) and offering a more effective omni-channel strategy. Further, opportunity such as wayfinding and remote assistance can be provided by LBS to allow customers more self-sufficient.

Based on the various services of the location based services market, the market can be segmented as consulting, system Integration, managed services, and other services. On the basis of products the global location based services market can be segmented as hardware, software and services.
Based on the various enterprises vertical, the global location based services market can be segmented as, fleet management and vehicle tracking, business intelligence and analytics, location based advertising, map based visualization, sales and distribution planning, emergency support and disaster management, and Leisure and Social Networking. Navigation and location based advertisement are expected to be the largest market segment in coming years.

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Based on the technology the global location based services market can be segmented as Cell Identification (Cell-ID), Enhanced GPS (E-GPS), Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA), Enhanced Observed Time Difference (E-OTD), Assisted GPS (A-GPS), and other technology.

Asia Pacific was the largest market for location based services in 2014. The market dominance of Asia Pacific is attributed to the presence of a large number of smart phone users in the region. Country wise China is the largest LBS market in the world. The U.S. and Canada are two of the largest markets of LBS in North America.

Some of the major players operating in the global location based services (LBS) market include, Apple Inc., Google Inc., Micello Inc., Shopkick Inc., HP

Enterprise Services LLC, Zebra Technologie, Cisco Systems Inc., CommScope Holding Company Inc., Ericsson Inc., IndoorAtlas Ltd., Microsoft Corp., NextNav LLC, Qualcomm Atheros Inc., and Skyhook Wireless Inc.

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