MOSDEN: A Scalable Mobile Collaborative Platform for Opportunistic Sensing Applications

TL;DR

MOSDEN is a scalable, energy-efficient mobile platform that facilitates opportunistic sensing by enabling data sharing across devices and applications, promoting reuse and reducing development efforts.

Contribution

The paper introduces MOSDEN, a novel mobile platform that supports real-time, collaborative opportunistic sensing on Android devices, emphasizing scalability and energy efficiency.

Findings

MOSDEN effectively supports data sharing across multiple devices and apps.

Experimental results demonstrate MOSDEN's scalability and energy efficiency.

MOSDEN is suitable for real-world opportunistic sensing applications.

Abstract

Mobile smartphones along with embedded sensors have become an efficient enabler for various mobile applications including opportunistic sensing. The hi-tech advances in smartphones are opening up a world of possibilities. This paper proposes a mobile collaborative platform called MOSDEN that enables and supports opportunistic sensing at run time. MOSDEN captures and shares sensor data across multiple apps, smartphones and users. MOSDEN supports the emerging trend of separating sensors from application-specific processing, storing and sharing. MOSDEN promotes reuse and re-purposing of sensor data hence reducing the efforts in developing novel opportunistic sensing applications. MOSDEN has been implemented on Android-based smartphones and tablets. Experimental evaluations validate the scalability and energy efficiency of MOSDEN and its suitability towards real world applications. The results of evaluation and lessons learned are presented and discussed in this paper.