Android Application to Assess Smartphone Accelerometers and Bluetooth for Real-Time Control

Abstract: Modern smart phones have evolved into sophisticated embedded systems, incorporating hardware and software features that make the devices potentially useful for real-time control operations. An object-oriented Android application was developed to quantify the performance of the smartphone’s on-board linear accelerometers and bluetooth wireless module with a view to potentially transmitting accelerometer data wirelessly between bluetooth-enabled devices. A portable bluetooth library was developed which runs the bluetooth functionality of the application as an independent background service. The performance of bluetooth was tested by pinging data between 2 smartphones, measuring round-trip-time and round-trip-time variation (jitter) against variations in data size, transmission distance and sources of interference. The accelerometers were tested for sampling frequency and sampling frequency jitter.

M. A. Nugent and Dr. Harold Esmonde. “Android Application to Assess Smartphone Accelerometers and Bluetooth for Real-Time Control”. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA) 6.3 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060302

@article{Nugent2015,
title = {Android Application to Assess Smartphone Accelerometers and Bluetooth for Real-Time Control},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060302},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060302},
year = {2015},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {6},
number = {3},
author = {M. A. Nugent and Dr. Harold Esmonde}
}