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On measuring mechanical oscillations using smartphone sensors: possibilities and limitation

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Modern smartphones provide various sensors for measuring physical phenomena in their surroundings. Due to the increased CPU performance and storage space, smartphones become able to process measured data in a more and more complex way. However, different limitations do exist that hamper the usage of smartphones as wirelessly communicating sensor platforms. The research presented in this paper is motivated by a real world application: the measurement of oscillations in the context of building monitoring. We discuss approaches for measuring oscillations using smartphones and analyse their limitations.

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    ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review  Volume 17, Issue 4
    October 2013
    69 pages
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    DOI:10.1145/2557968
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