The case for cloud-enabled mobile sensing services

  • Authors:
  • Sougata Sen;Archan Misra;Rajesh Balan;Lipyeow Lim

  • Affiliations:
  • Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore;Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore;Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore;University of Hawaii at Manoa, Manoa, HI, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the first edition of the MCC workshop on Mobile cloud computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We make the case for cloud-enabled mobile sensing services that support an emerging application class, one which infers near-real time collective context using sensor data obtained continuously from a large set of consumer mobile devices. We present the high-level architecture and functional requirements for such a mobile sensing service, and argue that such a service can significantly improve the scalability and energy-efficiency of large-scale mobile sensing by coordinating the sensing & processing tasks across multiple devices. We then focus specifically on the problem of energy-efficiency and provide early exemplars of how optimizing query execution jointly over multiple phones can lead to substantial energy savings.