title: Mobile Autonomous Sensing Unit (MASU): A Framework That Supports Distributed Pervasive Data Sensing.
abstract: Pervasive data sensing is a major issue that transverses various research areas and application domains. It allows identifying people's behaviour and patterns without overwhelming the monitored persons. Although there are many pervasive data sensing applications, they are typically focused on addressing specific problems in a single application domain, making them difficult to generalize or reuse. On the other hand, the platforms for supporting pervasive data sensing impose restrictions to the devices and operational environments that make them unsuitable for monitoring loosely-coupled or fully distributed work. In order to help address this challenge this paper present a framework that supports distributed pervasive data sensing in a generic way. Developers can use this framework to facilitate the implementations of their applications, thus reducing complexity and effort in such an activity. The framework was evaluated using simulations and also through an empirical test, and the obtained results indicate that it is useful to support such a sensing activity in loosely-coupled or fully distributed work scenarios.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Polit&#232;cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona 08034, Spain. esunlyma@ac.upc.edu.
authors.forename: Esunly
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Medina
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Polit&#232;cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona 08034, Spain. davidanl@ac.upc.edu.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lopez
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Polit&#232;cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona 08034, Spain. meseguer@ac.upc.edu.
authors.forename: Roc
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meseguer
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Department, Universidad de Chile, Beauchef 851, Edificio Norte, 3er Piso, Santiago 8370459, Chile. sochoa@dcc.uchile.cl.
authors.forename: Sergio F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Ochoa
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Polit&#232;cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona 08034, Spain. dolors@ac.upc.edu.
authors.forename: Dolors
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Royo
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur-CONICET, Bahia Blanca 8000, Argentina. ierms@uns.edu.ar.
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Santos
keywords: distributed pervasive data sensing; mobile collaboration; pervasive monitoring; software development framework