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Evaluation of fine-granular GPS tracking on smartphones

Authors:

Armin Zamani Farahani,

Fabian Tschirschnitz,

Felix von ReischachAuthors Info & Claims

MobiGIS '12: Proceedings of the First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems

Pages 33 - 40

https://doi.org/10.1145/2442810.2442817

Published: 06 November 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Smartphones with their GPS capabilities allow tracking in numerous scenarios at low costs. Whereas most scenarios need only coarse tracking, real-time tracking of competitors in sport events require fine-granular localization with high refresh frequencies. This work is conducted in the context of the sailing sports and tests the applicability of scenarios with fine-granularity requirements to today's available smartphones. We first describe our methodology to test smartphones for their suitability for fine-granular tracking. We execute a comparative study involving six modern smartphones running on three different mobile platforms and an additional dedicated GPS tracker. The GPS performance metrics accuracy, battery life, integrity and continuity were tested in four experimental setups, which were chosen with the intent to make the results applicable to real-world sports tracking scenarios. Our results show that with many of today's smartphones it is possible to fulfill fine-granularity requirements. But they also point out some devices' deficiency in integrity and continuity. Our results lead to guidelines relevant for GIS: tracking performance measurement, mobile platform and device selection, tracking application development and operation.

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Evaluation of fine-granular GPS tracking on smartphones
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  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
  2. Real-time systems
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  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
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MobiGIS '12: Proceedings of the First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems

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ISBN:9781450316996

DOI:10.1145/2442810

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Chi-Yin Chow
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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