Browsing by Author "Neyem, Hugo Andres"

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    MobileMap: A collaborative application to support emergency situations in urban areas
    (IEEE, 2009) Monares, Alvaro; Ochoa, Sergio; Pino, Jose; Herskovic, Valeria; Neyem, Hugo Andres
    One of the problems affecting fire departments in Latin America is the lack of a strong infrastructure to overcome their communication problems. Because these organizations are mainly volunteer and receive minimal support from government agencies, most existing solutions are not applicable for them. This article presents a low-cost mobile groupware application, which may be used in emergency situations to overcome the firefighters' communication problems. The tool, named MobileMap, allows exchanging textual and graphical information using mobile devices. Therefore, this solution complements the frequently over-used radio communication systems. This tool was evaluated in a simulated and a real scenario; the obtained results are highly encouraging.
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    Towards Native Code Offloading Platforms for Image Processing in Mobile Applications: A Case Study
    (IEEE, 2017) Valenzuela Gallegos, Guillermo Esteban; Neyem, Hugo Andres; Benedetto Causa, José Ignacio; Navon Cohen, Jaime; Sanabria Quispe, Pablo; Karmy, Juan A.; Balbontin, Felipe
    In this paper, we present a real-life case study to show the advantages of a new code offloading solution focused on improving both performance and energy consumption for image processing mobile applications. From our experiments, we found that offloading an image processing task would allow up to 5.7x speedup and 85% of reduction in energy consumption for low-end devices, and 1.7x speedup and 64.3% of reduction in energy consumption for high-end devices.