Agenda

Deploying Android PingER

The Android version of the PingER MA, is described with  comments at  ePingER on Android Native - Amity project (this a proposal/description from Aayush Jain)

• Amity's documents describe a multipurpose, stand-alone device that can be widely distributed, something that we have brainstormed about for a long time.
• Bebo mentioned it to Topher (the Principal Investigator (PI) of the RainForest project) and he feels that the Amity PingER/Android  app (when completed and vetted by Topher’s team) could easily be installed as a default service on his rainforest monitors (certainly future ones, not devices already in place). Merging the service data that he already collects with that unique to PingER has the potential to lead to some interesting results.

The topics are: 

• How should we proceed? 
  • We (Topher and the PingER team) agreed to request Amity to share the App and instructions with us; we will look at installing on a jailbroken Android phone at the San Francisco end and try it out.
  • We also need to finish up the proxy acquisition of data from the Android MAs. A first step is outlined inhttps://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Proxy+support+for+PingER. 
  • A later step is to look at, evaluate and find resources to implement the ideas expounded in the Future Proposals section of the paper you are working on

Status of Amity MA

The Amity MA is unreliable so using it for a case study does not appear fruitful. A start on such a paper has been made. Les is working with Amity to try and understand this unreliability (emails 10/6/2018, 12/6/2018, 12/23/2018), they say "There is an internet problem we are taking care of it and will get back soon".The ability to gather data from it is very intermittent, It runs fine for several days, then there is no data for many days.