Section: New Software and Platforms

APISENSE^®

Participants : Clive Ferret-Canape, Julien Duribreux, María Gómez Lacruz, Nicolas Haderer, Christophe Ribeiro, Romain Rouvoy [correspondant] , Antoine Veuiller.

In 2014, new developments have been made on our APISENSE ^® distributed crowdsensing platform. APISENSE ^® now builds on a distributed infrastructure hosted in the Cloud that can better cope with scalability issues in the number of experiments, users, and volume of data to be collected in the wild. Data collected by participants can be exposed to applications and stakeholders via an Open Data API, which provides the ability to build realtime web applications from crowdsourced datasets. The APISENSE ^® mobile app, named Bee , can be freely downloaded from the Google Play Store. APISENSE ^® is part of the results of the PhD thesis of Nicolas Haderer [12] that was defended in November 2014. In 2014, APISENSE ^® has also been at the core of an industrial transfer action that aims at creating a spin-off company. The project is managed by Christophe Ribeiro and Romain Rouvoy. The project has been accepted (so-called qualification) in 2014 by the Inria investment fund IT-Translation. The project in supported by Direction Transfert & Innovation which will fund in 2015 the 1-year engineer contract of Christophe Ribeiro for maturing the project.

APISENSE ^® is a distributed platform dedicated to crowdsensing activities. Crowdsensing intends to leverage mobile devices to seamlessly collect valuable dataset for different categories of stakeholders. APISENSE ^® intends to be used in a wide variety of scientific and industrial domains, including network quality monitoring, social behavior analysis, epidemy predictions, emergency crisis support, open maps initiatives, debugging of applications in the wide. APISENSE ^® is composed of Bee.hive delivered as a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to the stakeholders who can pilot and customize their own crowdsensing environment  [108] , and Bee.mob supporting participants with a mobile application to control the sensors to be shared with the rest of the world  [96] , [97] . The platform is used by the Metroscope consortium, an Internet scientific observatory initiative supported by Inria.

APISENSE ^® is at the core of the Inria ADT Focus CrowdLab project (see Section  8.2 ).

Web site: http://www.apisense.fr . Registered with the APP (Agence pour la Protection des Programmes) under reference IDDN.FR.001.080006.000.S.P.2013.000.10000 is pending. License: Proprietary.