MoSen: a middleware for mobile sensor programming

Abstract

Variety of mobile phone applications now seek access to the sensors in-built into the phone. Such applications require access to sensors for either data collection or for responding to events generated by sensors. Different mobile operating system provide different sets of APIs for accessing the sensors thus requiring rewriting of code to make it portable. In this work, we are presenting MoSen, a mobile sensing middleware that presents a common interface for accessing in-built sensors in different mobile OS's thus saving considerable effort in mobile sensor programming while not affecting the performance of the device.