Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Measuring Temperature and Pressure with your Smartphone

This is great - here they crowd-sourced city air temperatures from the internal temperatures of millions of smartphone batteries. Now...I can't believe this really works, but read the paper for yourself. It was published in Geophysical Research Letters, a highly-reputable peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Mass and Madaus (2014) describe another interesting application - measuring air pressure with smartphones that have a built-in barometer (e.g. Galaxy S V, etc.).

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