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To a large extent it depend on how we plan to use this. If the phones are just MAs in a fixed location then 1 is easier and probably sufficient. ifthei si If this is intended to grow into a mobile application for general use then it needs to be 2.
We agreed that Sara Masood at UUM should continue pursuing using the standard pinger2.pl version running under the perl interpreterwhile interpreter while Amity will try and put together an a native android version.
We also briefly discussed how to get the data from the phone MA to the archive. The current method ping_data.pl requires a public IP address for the phone which mnay not exist if its is mobile. Getting the MA to put the data to te the archive may raise some security issue for the archivearchiver. We did ot come to a conclusion
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