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This meeting: November 05, 2020 9 pm Pacific time; a day later 9:00 am Pakistan time; 10:30 am India time
Invitees:
- Email addresses
- sachanakshat@gmailabansal1@amity.comedu; sachanakshat@gmail assabitha@amity.comedu; sachanakshat@gmail.com; cottrell@slac.stanford.edu; saqibutm@outlook.com; bebo@slac.stanford.edu; umar.kalim@gmail.com;
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Shivang and Sakshi have been collecting data from the MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development India) site. LIke Johns Hopkins University in the US, MHRD gathers and provides COVID-19 data on cases, deaths etc. for states and cities such as Karnataka, Bangalore, Delhi in India. Now that the pingeramity server is running they are gathering its (latency) data. Besides India they are also looking at USA and Brazil. They then want to compare the pingeramity data with the COVID-19 data looking for correlations.
Mobile PingER
Akshat proposed to extend the ideas of the new Android-Mobile-based PingER to SmartTVs. This will enable a new PingER structure again with static monitors, but new code for the measurements, recording, and distribution. In particular, they will push the data out every 10-20 minutes, as opposed to today's version where we gather the data from the monitors on a daily basis each morning). Also, the new version would be Android based rather than Linux based.
They are also working on porting the current Android PingER that only works in the foreground to one that works in background. Part of the idea is also that it will be able to run on an iPhone. A next step is thus to complete a working version of the new PingER (let's for the moment call it ePingER) that runs in background, supports SmartTV, Android and iOS devices. Since Amity's end of semester is coming up with semester exams finishing December 11th, a goal was set to shoot for reporting on progress and possible demonstrations on December 21st
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Meeting Preparation Notes
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Apart from invitations to present papers at upcoming conferences we heard from Amity since Sep 4, 2020 when they forwarded an email originating July 11, 2020.
Earlier they had said
"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."
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