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- Email addresses
- sachanakshat@gmail.com; sachanakshat@gmail.com; sachanakshat@gmail.com; cottrell@slac.stanford.edu; saqibutm@outlook.com; bebo@slac.stanford.edu; umar.kalim@gmail.com; will there be others?
Actual Attendees
PingER Project Update using Zoom
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Recording of the meeting can be found at:
Minutes:
Attendees:
Amity: Asshat Sachan, Dr. A. Sai Sabitha, Prof. Dr. Abhay Bansai, Samaksh Agarwal, Shivang Gupta, Sakshi Arora, Shwang
US: Bebo White, Umar Kalim
Pakistan: Saqib Ali.
Introductions:
Les: Working on keeping PingER running, and on the impact of Covid-19.
Bebo: Main interest is finding new ways to collect, analyze and visualize data. Possibly use data in correlating with other events (e.g. Covid-19). Also looking at alternative monitoring architectures such as using Android/iPhones and possibly looking at mobility.
Umar: Mainly an observer.
Akshat: working on developing PingER for Android and IOS. Looking at extending to a SmartTV so have a fixed monitor.
Abhay Bansai: Wants data to be analyzed and visualized, come out with new ways of looking at and utilizing data, and making an impact on society, extend analysis of correlation with Covid-19.
Samaksh Agarwal:
Bebo:
Meeting Preparation Notes
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"We are still working on the portability of the app from Android to Flutter, which will enable the app to be downloaded in iOS environment along with Android. Currently, our application is supported by Android only. Samaksh is looking forward to this issue. We are also discussing how the location feature will add functionalities to our application, and the PingER project will be more than just static servers and we can better monitor the internet with growing mobile communication. Shivang will mail you the list of all the proposed ideas we have on our mind, on what we can do with our mobile application. We will forward the list to Les Cottrell Sir and Bebo White Sir and get it discussed with them too."
"One more thing I wanted to ask you is, can we have the ideas to be working on, or the subdomains, some particular topic we should pursue? Because there are a lot of facts we collected alone in the Coronavirus topic itself, and we need something more specific to work upon, like monitoring some particular countries, the government transparency on data, or measuring the impact the pandemic has on each country on a global scale. Please guide us into this. It would be a great help."
In response, we sent them an analysis of the impact of Covid-19 on PingER measurements. See the full report so far (main focus is on Africa and to a lesser extent South America) is at PingER and Covid-19 by Region. At the time we suggested "A possible project for Amity might be to extend the detailed analysis to South Asia. We would be happy to assist as needed."
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- People's movement and the wave patterns can give us great insight into how the virus is spreading and its impact. With the advent of festivals in India in the coming months, we are afraid we may be nearing a wave. We are trying to find its relation with various other factors, one being internet performance. The government has imposed various lockdowns and unlocking with different rules, we are also going to study its direct impact with COVID-19.
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We have successfully implemented the Ping through our mobile application, and the data is saved in the default PingER format, with 2 fields, in addition, the latitude and the longitude of the place.
An android application was implemented before, but this time we made a Flutter app, which makes it possible to distribute the app to both Android and iOS platforms via a single source code.
Regarding the format of data stored, we can only store it in JSON format, because it is the most convenient and best way to store. However, we made a python script which that can parse the JSON data to Plain Text format and give the output.
In addition to the functionality of the previous app, we are also storing the data locally on the user's phone, which is plain text format in a file, under the folder //Internal Storage/SLAC_Pinger/<date> <time>.txt
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No data since Jan 6, 2020. Cannot ping gives unknown host. Email from Amity Sep 4, 2020: i "Also, for our Amity SLAC server, physical access is not possible and therefore we are unable to configure the scripts manually there and hence it is running offline. It will be set as soon as the college reopens." Is there any idea when this may occur or what has to happen before the college is allowed to open?
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