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A Location-Aware Architecture Supporting Intelligent Real-Time Mobile Applications, Sean J. Barbeau
A Location-Aware Architecture Supporting Intelligent Real-Time Mobile Applications, Sean J. Barbeau
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation presents LAISYC, a modular location-aware architecture for intelligent real-time mobile applications that is fully-implementable by third party mobile app developers and supports high-precision and high-accuracy positioning systems such as GPS. LAISYC significantly improves device battery life, provides location data authenticity, ensures security of location data, and significantly reduces the amount of data transferred between the phone and server. The design, implementation, and evaluation of LAISYC using real mobile phones include the following modules: the GPS Auto-Sleep module saves battery energy when using GPS, maintaining acceptable movement tracking (approximately 89% accuracy) with an approximate average doubling of battery life. …
Check Image Processing: Webp Conversion And Micr Scan Android Application, Trevor Bliss
Check Image Processing: Webp Conversion And Micr Scan Android Application, Trevor Bliss
Computer Engineering
As more users favor smartphones over computers for simple tasks, small businesses are constantly exploring mobile options to present to their customers. This write-up documents an Android application designed for a small company, which allows users to send pictures of checks to the company’s servers for processing. The picture is taken with the devices built-in camera and is converted to Google’s new image format, WebP. The company’s server processes the check and returns the check’s MICR code as a response. This application leverages the Android NDK and JNI to use Google’s open source image conversion libraries as well as socket …