Survey of Mobile Phone Sensing
Mobile phones orsmartphone sarerapidl y becoming the central computer and communication device in people’s lives. Application delivery channels such as the Apple AppStore are transforming mobile phones into App Phones, capable of downloading a myriad of applications in an instant. Importantly, today’s smartphones are programmable and come with a growing set of cheap powerful embedded sensors, such as an accelerometer, digital compass, gyroscope, GPS, microphone, and camera, which are enabling the emergence of personal, group, and communityscale sensing applications. We believe that sensor-equipped mobile phones will revolutionize manys e c tor s of oure conomy ,inc luding bus i ness, healthcare, social networks, environmental monitoring, and transportation. In this article we survey existing mobile phone sensing algorithms, applications, and systems. We discuss the emerging sensing paradigms, and formulate an architectural framework for discussing a number of the open issues and challenges emerging in the new area of mobile phone sensing research
Mobile sensing appl i c a t ions had to be manua l l y downloaded, installed, and hand tuned for each device. User studies conducted to evaluate new mobile sensing applications and algorithms were small-scale because of the expense and complexity of doing experiments at scale. As a result the research, which was innovative, gained little momentum outside a small group of dedicated researchers. Although the potential of using mobile phones as a platform for sensing research has been discussed for a number of years now, providing unprecedented scale and additional resources for computing on collections of large-scale sensor data and supporting advanced features such as persuasive user feedback based on the analysis of big sensor data. The combination of these advances opens the door for new innovative research and will lead to the development of sensing applications that are likely to revolutionize a large number of existing remain to make this vision a reality. For example, how much intelligence can we push to the phone without jeopardizing the phone experience? What breakthroughs are needed in order to perform robust and accurate classification of activities and context out in the wild? How do we scale a sensing application from an individual to
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