Comparison of performance between a native app and a mobile web application for monitoring a photovoltaic system

Authors

  • Sharon D. Sánchez Santana Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Cúcuta
  • José Ignacio Estévez Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Cúcuta
  • Sergio B. Sepúlveda Mora Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Cúcuta
  • Byron Medina Delgado Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Cúcuta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18046/syt.v14i39.2347

Keywords:

Android, application, database, multi-platform, monitoring.

Abstract

A native Android application and a multi-platform web application to monitor solar radiation and the output power of a photovoltaic system were developed, in order to establish which is more efficient using the mobile device resources. The methodology for Mobile Application Development [MAD] was adopted and free software tools –Android Studio and HTML5– were used. CPU consumption, response time in sending data and memory usage for the execution of the applications, were compared; also, the user experience was evaluated through the 6Ms survey. The transfer time of a data from the server to the mobile application executed in Chrome was 0.887 seconds, the native application transfers a data in 0.853 seconds –both times are within the acceptable ranges, since the acquisition system stores one data every 5 minutes; the average memory usage was 182 Mb for executing the application in the Chrome browser, while the native application achieved a reduction of 65%, therefore it can be concluded that the native application requires less memory usage for its execution. 

Author Biographies

  • Sharon D. Sánchez Santana, Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Cúcuta

    Electronics Engineer and member of GIDT (Research and Development in Telecommunications Group) from Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander (Cucuta, Colombia). Her main areas of interest are: mobile solutions, telemetry, and web programming.

     

  • José Ignacio Estévez, Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Cúcuta

    Java programmer at SmartSoft Colombia. Electronics Engineer from Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander (Cucuta, Colombia). His main areas of interest are: mobile solutions, telemetry, and web programming.

  • Sergio B. Sepúlveda Mora, Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Cúcuta

    Full-time professor at the Department of Electricity and Electronics, and researcher of GIDT (Research and Development in Telecommunications Group) and GIDMA (Research and Development in Microelectronics Group). Electronics Engineer from Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander (Cucuta, Colombia) and Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Delaware (Newark, DE). His main areas of interest are: photovoltaic solar energy, wireless sensor networks, embedded systems and mobile solutions.

  • Byron Medina Delgado, Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Cúcuta

    Full-time professor at the Department of Electricity and Electronics, and researcher of GIDT (Research and Development in Telecommunications Group). Electronics Engineer from Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander (Cucuta, Colombia) and Master in Electronics Engineering from the National Experimental University of Tachira (San Cristobal, Venezuela). His main areas of interest are: telecommunications, electromagnetic theory, mobile solutions and technology management.

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Published

2016-12-01

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 39 (2016)

Section

Original Research

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