Desarrollo de un prototipo de aplicación para mensajería instantánea en el área de salud utilizando agentes móviles

Abstract

The objective of this technical degree project is to provide an instant messaging tool for Android mobile devices that facilitates communication between medical staff and patients within a closed and secure environment using JADE-LEAP mobile agents. The methodology used in this work was experimental, since it involves the research part of the agent-oriented programming language and its integration in mobile devices as clients and with SOAP-type web services on the server side, this client-server architecture of the work was developed in JAVA. The results obtained in controlled test scenarios showed the functionality, advantages and disadvantages when handling different sizes of text lengths and concurrency in this application, as well as specific indicators of battery consumption in mobile devices. From the results obtained, using WSIG allowed efficient use of server resources, with the minimum latency of 451 milliseconds (ms) in the first test scenario and the maximum latency of 14359ms in the third scenario. As for the use of mobile device battery, in the third test scenario, the smartphone consumed 1.58% while the tablet used 0.45%, in the first scenario the consumption is 0.27% for smartphone and 0.09% for tablet. Battery consumption was low considering the proposed test scenarios, since in real life the use of an IM application; it is uncommon to send messages with large amounts of text.