Evaluation of smartphone inertial sensor performance for cross-platform mobile applications

Kos, Anton (author), Tomažič, Sašo (author), Umek, Anton (author)

Smartphone sensors are being increasingly used in mobile applications. The performance of sensors varies considerably among different smartphone models and the development of a cross-platform mobile application might be a very complex and demanding task. A publicly accessible resource containing real-life-situation smartphone sensor parameters could be of great help for cross-platform developers. To address this issue we have designed and implemented a pilot participatory sensing application for measuring, gathering, and analyzing smartphone sensor parameters. We start with smartphone accelerometer and gyroscope bias and noise parameters. The application database presently includes sensor parameters of more than 60 different smartphone models of different platforms. It is a modest, but important start, offering information on several statistical parameters of the measured smartphone sensors and insights into their performance. The next step, a large-scale cloud-based version of the application, is already planned. The large database of smartphone sensor parameters may prove particularly useful for cross-platform developers. It may also be interesting for individual participants who would be able to check-up and compare their smartphone sensors against a large number of similar or identical models.

• Language: English
• Keywords: smartphone sensors, mobile applications, participatory sensing, Internet of Things, cross-platform applications, inertial sensor performance parameters
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FE - Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2016
• Number of pages: 15 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 16, iss. 4, art. 477
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-130303
• UDC: 621.39:004.7
• ISSN on article: 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s16040477
• COBISS.SI-ID: 11330644
• Publication date in RUL: 13.09.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sensors
• Shortened title: Sensors
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1424-8220
• COBISS.SI-ID: 10176278

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 04.04.2016

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: senzorji pametnih telefonov, mobilne aplikacije, deležniško zaznavanje, internet stvari, aplikacije za več platform, parametri senzorjev gibanja

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0246
• Name: Algoritmi in optimizacijski postopki v telekomunikacijah

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: L2-5481
• Name: Uporaba brezžičnih senzorskih naprav za spremljanje gibanja in biološko povratno vezavo