This is a comprehensive guidebook that explores the use of smartphone sensors in the field of smart transportation. The book covers various types of sensors that are integrated into modern smartphones and how they can be utilized in the development of smart transportation systems. The book begins with an overview of smart transportation and its benefits, followed by an introduction to smartphone sensors and their capabilities. The author then delves into the details of various sensors, including GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, barometer, proximity sensor, light sensor, biometric sensors, ultrasonic sensor, OBD-II, NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular connectivity sensors, inertial measurement unit, camera, and air quality sensors. The book also includes case studies and real-world examples of how these sensors are being used in smart transportation applications. This book is ideal for engineers, researchers, and developers who are interested in the application of smartphone sensors in the field of smart transportation, as well as students and practitioners in the related fields.
It focuses on the latest advancements and innovations in smartphone sensors and their potential applications in smart transportation. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of the various types of sensors found in modern smartphones and how they can be leveraged to create smarter and more efficient transportation system.
Recent years have witnessed evolutionary growth in embedded systems and communication technologies, which helps in designing compact-sized mobile devices. Such devices generally
operate over batteries and are powerful enough to perform most of the tasks the users can perform
on a computer. Moreover, designing these compact devices incurs minimal costs, and they
consume limited energy while executing a task. These low-cost, low-powered, and compact
devices, like smartphones, smartwatches, smart glasses, have revolutionized in-situ task
processing in real-time applications. Specifically, smartphones are widely adopted and the
preferable choice for a significant number of users; in fact, most of the users only have
smartphones as computing devices.
Besides the computational capacity of simultaneously processing multiple tasks, smartphones
possess richer sensing capabilities. Smartphones have various onboard sensors, including
accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, touch, fingerprint sensor, heart rate, etc .
These onboard sensors facilitate unprecedented opportunities to perform various sensing and
monitoring activities. The sensing and monitoring activities are advantageous in different
application domains such as health care, agriculture, activities monitoring, transport,
localization and tracking, human safety, etc .
