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Pogo, a Middleware for Mobile Phone Sensing

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Middleware 2012 (Middleware 2012)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 7662))

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The smartphone revolution has brought ubiquitous, powerful, and connected sensing hardware to the masses. This holds great promise for a wide range of research fields. However, deployment of experiments onto a large set of mobile devices places technological, organizational, and sometimes financial burdens on researchers, making real-world experimental research cumbersome and difficult. We argue that a research infrastructure in the form of a large-scale mobile phone testbed is required to unlock the potential of this new technology.

We aim to facilitate experimentation with mobile phone sensing by providing a pragmatic middleware framework that is easy to use and features fine-grained user-level control to guard the privacy of the volunteer smart-phone users. In this paper we describe the challenges and requirements for such a middleware, outline an architecture featuring a flexible, scriptable publish/subscribe framework, and report on our experience with an implementation running on top of the Android platform.

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  1. Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

    Niels Brouwers & Koen Langendoen

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 4720 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Priya Narasimhan

  2. Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, University Campus, 26504, Rio, Greece

    Peter Triantafillou

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Brouwers, N., Langendoen, K. (2012). Pogo, a Middleware for Mobile Phone Sensing. In: Narasimhan, P., Triantafillou, P. (eds) Middleware 2012. Middleware 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7662. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35170-9_2

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