R&D challenges and solutions for mobile cyber-physical applications and supporting Internet services

Jules White, Siobhan Clarke, Christin Groba, Brian Dougherty, Chris Thompson, Douglas C. Schmidt
2010 Journal of Internet Services and Applications  
The powerful processors and variety of sensors in new and planned mobile Internet devices, such as Apple's iPhone and Android-based smartphones, can be leveraged to build cyber-physical applications that collect sensor data from the real world and communicate it back to Internet services for processing and aggregation. This article presents key R&D challenges facing developers of mobile cyber-physical applications that integrate with Internet services and summarizes emerging solutions to
more » ... these challenges. For example, application software should be architected to conserve power, which motivates R&D on tools that can predict the power consumption characteristics of mobile software architectures. Other R&D challenges involve the relative paucity of work on software and sensor data collection architectures that cater to the powerful capabilities and cyber-physical aspects of mobile Internet devices, which motivates R&D on architectures tailored to the latest mobile Internet devices.
doi:10.1007/s13174-010-0004-9 fatcat:n5gjj4a43na3zpnear5rs2qxoy