by RJN » Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:12 pm
A paper (not mine) has just been accepted to Geophysics Research Letters titled "Crowdsourcing urban air temperatures from smartphone battery temperature" by Overeem et al. Here is a link:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 6/abstract .
I had not known about this paper (thanks to colleague RA Shaw for pointing it out). As with many smartphone projects, it uses the devices in a way that I had not even considered previously. Here, the internal battery temperature is correlated with outdoor temperatures in cities to increase knowledge of urban temperatures for meteorology and power consumption. I didn't even know that smartphones tracked their own battery temperatures! This is a real smartphone-as-science-sensor paper. Even in retrospect, I am surprised that smartphones can be used in this way, as it seems to me that personal smartphones would typically sit in varied conditions, including sunlight, shade, heated buildings, and air-conditioned buildings. Still, kudos to them for not only designing a pioneering science application with smartphone sensors, but carrying it out and writing the paper. They also give a few citations near the end of smartphones being considered for other meteorological endeavors.
A paper (not mine) has just been accepted to Geophysics Research Letters titled "Crowdsourcing urban air temperatures from smartphone battery temperature" by Overeem et al. Here is a link: [url]http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50786/abstract[/url] .
I had not known about this paper (thanks to colleague RA Shaw for pointing it out). As with many smartphone projects, it uses the devices in a way that I had not even considered previously. Here, the internal battery temperature is correlated with outdoor temperatures in cities to increase knowledge of urban temperatures for meteorology and power consumption. I didn't even know that smartphones tracked their own battery temperatures! This is a real smartphone-as-science-sensor paper. Even in retrospect, I am surprised that smartphones can be used in this way, as it seems to me that personal smartphones would typically sit in varied conditions, including sunlight, shade, heated buildings, and air-conditioned buildings. Still, kudos to them for not only designing a pioneering science application with smartphone sensors, but carrying it out and writing the paper. They also give a few citations near the end of smartphones being considered for other meteorological endeavors.