Progressive Web Apps to Support (Critical) Systems in Low or No Connectivity Areas

Josephe, Alonge Oluwatobi; Chrysoulas, Christos; Peng, Taoxin; El Boudani, Brahim; Iatropoulos, Ioannis; Pitropakis, Nikolaos

Abstract

Web applications are popular in our world today and every organization or individual either build or access at least one each day. It’s important for every application user to continue accessing contents of a web application irrespective of the network connectivity and user’s location. Previous researchers have tried to solve this problem by using the browser’s cache to make the web application work offline. Although this approach has worked, it lacks the aspect of permitting a user to send information to the server when offline. This work proposed an architecture to solve this by sending essential data through an SMS platform. A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that fits into the proposed architecture was implemented leveraging on service worker to detect an offline application and send the data through SMS. The information is retrieved by a webhook and sent to the webserver. The result of this research validates that the proposed architecture can be used to send data when a web application is offline. The research also recommends areas where further work can be explored to improve on this solution.

Citation

Josephe, A. O., Chrysoulas, C., Peng, T., El Boudani, B., Iatropoulos, I., & Pitropakis, N. (2023, May). Progressive Web Apps to Support (Critical) Systems in Low or No Connectivity Areas. Presented at 2023 IEEE IAS Global Conference on Emerging Technologies (GlobConET), London

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2023 IEEE IAS Global Conference on Emerging Technologies (GlobConET)
• Start Date: May 19, 2023
• End Date: May 21, 2023
• Acceptance Date: Mar 20, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Jun 16, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023
• Deposit Date: Mar 30, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 16, 2023
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Book Title: 2023 IEEE IAS Global Conference on Emerging Technologies (GlobConET)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/GlobConET56651.2023.10150058
• Keywords: Progressive Web Apps, Critical Infrastructure, Connectivity
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/1846784/all-proceedings
• Related Public URLs: https://www.globconet.org/