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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Smartphone-based"”.
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Smartphone-based robot control for localisation
This project developed to use smartphone as a robot controller since it’s more powerful and equipped with several sensors that are useful for robots. The project uses Android application as well as Arduino microcontroller to locate and control the robot via DTMF tone from distance. Magnetometer and …
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A smartphone-based energy saving navigation system
This thesis describes a smartphone-based vehicular GPS navigator by using an energy saving lo- cation sensing mode and it reduces navigation energy needs by more than an order of magnitude. The thesis will go over the theory and mode behind it and focus on the implementation details and the survey …
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SMARTPHONE-BASED COMPRESSION-INDUCED IMAGING SYSTEM DATA SECURITY
The Smartphone-based Compression-Induced System (SCIS) is developed to obtain the mechanical properties of a tumor. Using a SCIS smartphone app, we obtain tactile images, and we developed data security methodology in this thesis. The first version of the system (SCIS V1) is developed using the …
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SenSys: A Smartphone-Based Framework for ITS applications
… set of data. The recent massive spread of smartphones among drivers encouraged the ITS community to use them to solve ITS challenges.</p> <p>Using smartphones in ITS is gaining an increasing interest among researchers and developers. Typically, the set of sensors that comes with smartphones …
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Smartphone-based point-of-care detection systems for infectious diseases
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Smartphone-based systems for mobile infectious disease detection and epidemiology
… infectious diseases. In this work, two types of smartphone-based detection platforms are developed for mobile infectious disease detection. The first one is for the detection of human immunodeficiency virus. The second one is for the multiplexed detection of nucleic acids of pathogens for equine …
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Smartphone-based mobility mapping and Perceived Air Quality evaluation in Beijing
Recently, the rapid development of smartphone technologies has brought new opportunities for the citizen travel survey. Based on a survey performed using a smartphone app, Moves, in Beijing, China, this thesis discusses the survey design and implementation process as well as the mobility analysis …
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mHealth literacy: characterizing people’s ability to use smartphone-based health-related applications
… a user need to use a health-related app on a smartphone? It coins the term ‘mHealth Literacy’ to refer to all such necessary skills. The research methodology of this dissertation has two parts: a pilot study and a final study. In the pilot study, three phone interviews were conducted with …
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Development of a Smartphone Based Point of Care Device for Multiplexed Infectious Disease Diagnosis
… coupled with cell-phones. Existing cell-phone based point of care diagnostic devices lack sensitivity, portability or adequate multiplexing capabilities. Quantum dot microbead barcoding, Recombinase Polymerase Amplification and fluorescent microscopy are three technological platforms that have …
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Better, quicker, together : enabling public transport service quality co-monitoring through a smartphone-based platform
Public transport system is an important part of cities, and the quality of public transport service -- passengers' perceived performance -- is a key urban indicator. Customer satisfaction surveys has been the traditional methods and metrics for monitoring and evaluating public transport service …
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Integrated Smartphone-Based Computer Vision and Machine Learning Platform for Identification of Surgical Site Infections
… the design and development of an integrated smartphone application that can be used by community health workers (CHW) to help detect SSI using a smartphone camera image. This mobile application includes four main components: (1) a computer vision image capture algorithm with automated image …
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The validity, reliability, and sensitivity of a smartphone-based seated postural control assessment in wheelchair users
… they are subjective and lack sensitivity. Lab-based measures are highly sensitive but are limited in scope and restricted to research settings. Establishing a valid, reliable and accessible measurement tool of seated postural control is necessary to better understand and remotely track seated …
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Loop mediated isothermal amplification based detection of equine respiratory pathogens using a portable, smartphone-based setup
… disease-specific DNA sequences that utilizes a smartphone camera as the sensor in conjunction with a handheld “cradle” that interfaces the phone with a silicon-based microfluidic chip embedded within a credit card-sized cartridge. Utilizing specific nucleic acid sequences for four equine …
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Measuring travel equity and representativeness : opportunities and challenges of using smartphone-based travel survey in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
… in Dar and other cities of the Global South. Based on the smartphone-based travel survey data collected by the World Bank from 581 Dar residents for a 4-week period in November-December 2015, this thesis identifies travel patterns depicted by the data, analyzes the representativeness of …
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Harnessing mHealth to improve access to hearing care: Low material-cost, smartphone-based infant hearing screening at Seattle Children’s Hospital
… with a material cost of $10, and a simple smartphone application to conduct single-step hearing screening. The results were compared to a commercially available OAE device that costs approximately $5000. Tests were conducted by research coordinators without prior clinical experience. …
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Gold nanostars: from catalytic and SERS properties to the development of smartphone-based and portable biosensing approaches for food contaminants
… such as the development of diagnostic devices based on these mechanisms. <br/><br/>On the other hand, smartphones have emerged as ideal readout systems which, in combination with gold nanostars conjugated with specific biorecognition elements define a new type of point-of-care (POC) sensors …
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Development of spectroscopic smartphone biosensors for point-of-care applications
… emergent areas within contemporary biosensing, smartphone based spectroscopy and photonic crystal enhanced microscopy, and how these technologies can be combined to produce a fundamentally novel point-of-care testing paradigm: a portable device platform capable of non-amplifying, …
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The design and implementation of a smartphone illuminance meter
The proliferation of consumer smartphones has offered new opportunities for environmental sensing and mobile computation. Recent smartphone models - equipped with GPS trackers, accelerometers, megapixel cameras and rich software stacks - offer the possibility of emulating specialized tools …
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A noninvasive, image-based smartphone app for diagnosing anemia
Smartphone-based telehealth is steadily transforming the delivery of medical care worldwide, moving diagnosis of disease from the clinic to the home to potentially anywhere in the globe. Smartphone images alone have recently been used by physicians to remotely diagnose a myriad of diseases. …
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