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EMMA: A Context-Aware Middleware for Energy Management on Mobile Devices

Authors:
André Ebert
Florian Dorfmeister
Marco Maier
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Keywords: mobile energy management; contextual service provision

Abstract:
The rapid increase of smartphones’ sensing, computation and communication capabilities is accompanied by a growing demand for energy. Both, short-term and long-term energy allocation is a bottleneck which severely constrains a mobile device’s capabilities and usability. It is thus one of the most critical challenges for current device development. Despite of numerous hardware improvements, e.g., concerning the energy consumption of sensors and displays, as well as the development of more capable batteries, this issue remains to be solved. Hence, software-based approaches can be used to optimize the energy management of mobile devices according to a user’s preferences, context information and the current energetic state of a device. In this paper, we specify the requirements for a modular energy management middleware architecture coined EMMA, which considers the dynamic and modular integration of existing energy improvement concepts in relation to the device’s current energy status and active services as well as the users context and preferences. Furthermore, we present a prototype application which demonstrates some of EMMA’s core concepts.

Pages: 48 to 53

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-369-8

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014