SBIR Phase I: Enabling Techologies for Energy-Centric Mobile App Design to Extend Mobile Device Battery Life

SBIR 第一阶段：以能源为中心的移动应用程序设计支持技术，以延长移动设备的电池寿命

• 批准号: 1549214
• 负责人: Charlie Hu
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Mobile Enerlytics LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2016-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1549214&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Enabling; Techologies; Energy

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project can be summarized as follows. (1) Societal impact: The PI's initial ground-breaking research on dissecting the energy drain of AngryBirds and exposing its inefficiency was covered by over 500 news media outlets worldwide. This interest reflects the growing importance of mobile computing devices in all strata of society. The importance of this work is heightened by smartphones being an important enabler of Internet access for disadvantaged people in both developed and developing countries, and hence being an important tool in overcoming the "digital divide". (2) Commercial impact: The technologies developed in this project for enabling energy-efficient app design will lead to longer battery life, which in turn leads to longer mobile eye time of users, which ultimately translates into millions of dollars of increased revenue to large businesses today as they transition towards mobile. The commercial outcome of the proposed SBIR project will lead to a marketable product and/or process. (3) Technological impact: This work will extend the performance profiling technology foundational to the software industry to the energy dimension, which is critical to the mobile software industry.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will tackle several key technical challenges in helping app developers to write energy-efficient apps, which holds the promise of extending the battery life of mobile devices and ultimately improving user mobile experience. The research objectives are (1) to develop energy analytics of mobile apps running on millions of users' phones and incentivize developers to adopt an energy-centric app design paradigm; (2) to develop technologies for app energy profiling with multiple resolutions which will make it easier for developers to adopt them in their app design process; (3) to develop energy-efficiency programming guidelines and templates for helping app developers to write energy-efficient apps in the first place. These objectives pose significant technical challenges. While similar challenges on the performance metric (e.g. running time) have been well studied for traditional software, in particular in high-performance computing, this project will take them to the energy dimension for the mobile software industry, which has not been attempted before. The company expects to develop the first set of solutions to these fundamental challenges in optimizing the energy drain of millions of mobile apps.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I期项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力可以总结如下。 （1）社会影响：全球500多家新闻媒体涵盖了PI最初关于剖析愤怒鸟和暴露其效率低下的最初的最初研究研究。这种兴趣反映了社会所有阶层移动计算设备的重要性。智能手机是发达国家和发展中国家处于弱势群体的Internet访问的重要推动力，从而提高了这项工作的重要性，因此成为克服“数字鸿沟”的重要工具。 （2）商业影响：该项目为实现节能应用设计而开发的技术将导致较长的电池寿命，进而导致用户移动眼睛的时间更长，最终将当今的大型企业提高到当今的大型企业，因为它们过渡到移动设备。拟议的SBIR项目的商业结果将导致可销售的产品和/或流程。 （3）技术影响：这项工作将将软件行业的性能分析技术扩展到能源维度，这对移动软件行业至关重要。这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目将在帮助应用程序开发人员撰写能源效率的应用程序方面应对一些关键的技术挑战，这有望扩大移动设备的电池寿命，并最终改善了移动式移动经验。研究目标是（1）开发在数百万用户手机上运行的移动应用程序的能源分析，并激励开发人员采用以能源为中心的应用程序设计范式； （2）开发具有多种决议的应用程序能源分析的技术，这将使开发人员更容易在其应用程序设计过程中采用它们； （3）制定节能编程指南和模板，以帮助应用程序开发人员首先编写节能应用程序。这些目标构成了重大的技术挑战。尽管对传统软件（尤其是在高性能计算中）的性能指标（例如运行时间）的类似挑战（例如运行时间），但该项目将使它们达到移动软件行业的能源维度，而移动软件行业以前尚未尝试过。该公司希望为这些基本挑战提供第一组解决方案，以优化数百万移动应用程序的能源流失。