P6.1 - A Sensor Interface for Mobile Phones
- Event
- SENSOR+TEST Conferences 2009
2009-05-26 - 2009-05-28
Congress Center Nürnberg - Band
- Proceedings SENSOR 2009, Volume II
- Chapter
- P6 - Sensor Electronics/Wireless
- Author(s)
- J. Rabe, M. Rost - Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
- Pages
- 421 - 425
- DOI
- 10.5162/sensor09/v2/p6.1
- ISBN
- 978-3-9810993-5-5
- Price
- free
Abstract
- Why a sensor interface for mobile phones?
A mobile phone seems to be an ideal instrument for monitoring vital parameters of patients or old people. For this purpose an interface is needed to connect different sensors like photo sensors, accleration sensors or biosensors to the mobile phone in a simple way. Furthermore, a mobile phone is also helpful for other sensor-based applications, e.g. in environmental monitoring and measuring technics.
- Is a mobile phone applicable for sensor measurements?
Mobile phones, especially smartphones, have all components of a typical hand held meter (display, input elements, microcontroller, memory etc.) without the typical sensor interface. Modern smartphones’ processing power is comparable to PCs of the Pentium-2 class, and they have some helpful interfaces like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or USB. A further important point is that mobile phones are widely used by virtually everyone.
- Are there already similar solutions?
A lot of special technical solutions using a mobile phone to get vital data are described in patent applications.