Implementing Monitoring Systems in Mobile Applications – a Case Study
Octavian Dospinescu, Roxana-Marina STRAINU · Informatica Economica · 2014
During the last years, the evolution of mobile applications allowed the developers to become more and more creative.In this way, we can imagine many applications models with a real impact in the real life.In this article we are trying to present a case study for a monitoring system using the Android platform and the benefits of computer networks.We use the power of mobile sockets and mobile threads, integrating them in a complex architecture in order to obtain a real monitoring system.As an immediate application, we propose a baby monitoring systems so that the children could be remotely supervised by their parents.The case study is based on an Android mobile client-server architecture and also uses the capabilities offered by the phone's speaker and microphone.We intend to have a robust application and that's why we initially preferred Network Service Discovery and Android P2P, but these functionalities are implemented starting with Android 4.1.So, we emulated all these functionalities by using a model based on sockets and server sockets.