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 completely in software. This paper documents recent efforts to build a robust, smartphone-based illuminance meter application, and describes its prototype implementation. Though hardware and software constraints prevent the complete development of such a prototype, its use and potential are demonstrated.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Sparks, Devon D

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Christoph Reinhart.

• Architecture.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79179

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/79179