Mobile Bookstore (m-Bookstore)

Mobile technologies and computing are evolving and expanding each day, demanding
and creating a much more ubiquitous computing environment. This research project
proposes the development and implementation of the Mobile Bookstore - a mobile
solution for bookstore businesses. This report presents the final research and study of
the development of the Mobile Bookstore as a solution to the problem statements stated
in the project proposal as well as in this report, which is considered as the main
objective of the study. The Mobile Bookstore will address to the four problem
statements, which are the geographical problems, the advancing mobile technologies,
ubiquitous demands in computing and large bookstore information requests. These
objectives help in answering the question to why this research is done and why would
we need a mobile bookstore? With the mobile bookstore, companies can reach out to
more customers, anywhere and everywhere using mobile devices. This concept allows
for a more ubiquitous business and computing. Major bookstores need to compete and
to be on top, implementing the latest technologies to serve its customers, and the
mobile technology is one that should be taken advantage of. Browsing the large
database of a bookstore can be time-consuming and difficult using expensive kiosks
that come in limited numbers. A wireless environment can create wireless networks
allowing those with mobile devices to browse through the bookstore database with
ease. With this report, the basis for the research of this project will be underlined in
detail, including the technologies, means, methods and study of recent researches
related to the study. The result of this research project will be the software solution, a
system (the Mobile Bookstore), which consists of two modules: the outdoor WAPbased
module and the indoor Wireless Network module.