The ZOS Platform
Modular, Flexible, Cloud Hosted
The ZOS location platform was built from the ground up to address the widest possible range of location use cases while providing the industry-leading accuracy, reliability, and a flexible integration path for enterprise consumers and software developers. A modular architecture allows developers to create custom solutions and applications that can exist within their own product ecosystems.
The platform consists of the ZOS Mobile Client, a compact application that resides on the mobile device, and the cloud-based ZOS Server, an advanced geo-spatial rules engine. Open APIs on both the mobile device and the server allow 3rd party developers to easily access and integrate location awareness into their applications.
The intelligence behind the ZOS location platform resides within the ZOS Server and not the mobile device. Why is this important? Devices have limited resources—CPU, memory, etc. Conversely, the cloud is scalable, allowing a nearly unlimited number of geofences to be built and used simultaneously.
The ZOS Server tracks devices registered with the system and stores preset event parameters that govern whether a location-based action occurs. When it determines that the rules for an event have been achieved, it initiates the action, such as delivery of content to specified mobile devices. If the logic for the platform resided on the mobile device instead, any change to event parameters would have to be made for every device currently and formerly registered for the event. The ZOS approach makes much more efficient use of both the network and mobile device hardware.
ZOS’ server algorithms working in conjunction with the ZOS Mobile client use a variety of location data sources to establish device location quickly and accurately, both indoors and out. The ZOS approach maximizes accuracy, time-to-first-fix, and battery life.
See Hybrid Location Determination and Hyper-Accurate Location for more detail.
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