Cost-effective data-collection systems for citizen science
Chawathe SS. 2019. Cost-effective data-collection systems for citizen science. University of Maine
From the abstract: "Citizen science efforts often include data collection by volunteers. Computerizing such data collection provides several benefits, including improved data consistency, shorter time from collection to use, and immediate feedback to the data collectors. Implementing such a computerized data collection system is often challenging because it is difficult to accurately estimate the level of participation and, therefore, the required load-handling capacity. Overestimating the capacity results in unnecessary infrastructure costs while underestimating it leads to sluggish or failed systems. The so-called serverless or cloud based systems are attractive in this context because they permit the apparent (paid) infrastructure to scale with load. Determining cost profiles of different designs in this environment and, therefore, selecting a suitable one are challenging tasks that are addressed by this work."
- Type
- Poster
- Authors
- Chawathe, Sudarshan
- Date of Issue
- 2019-10-20
- Publisher
- University of Maine
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Citizen science