DESCRIPTION:
Today’s smartphones have a variety of sensors to improve user experience, provide apps greater information about the environment surrounding the phone, and offer dependable and longer battery life.
PROXIMITY SENSOR
determines when anything is close to the phone. The most typical usage of this technology is to detect when a phone is brought up to a user’s ear to turn off the display. Battery life is preserved, and inadvertent screen touches are avoided.
ACCELEROMETER AND GYROSCOPE
Mobile phones’ accelerometers are used to determine the phone’s orientation. The gyroscope, or gyro for short, tracks rotation or twist to provide another dimension to the data provided by the accelerometer.
A gyro monitors the angular rotational velocity, whereas an accelerometer measures the linear acceleration of movement. Both sensors measure rate of change; they only measure different items’ rates of change.
In actuality, this implies that an accelerometer can track a device’s directional movement but cannot precisely determine its lateral orientation or tilt unless a gyro is present to provide that information.
You can obtain an extremely “noisy” information output from an accelerometer that is responsive, or you may have a “clean” output that is slow. Nevertheless, when you combine a 3-axis gyro with a 3-axis accelerometer, the output is both clear and quick at the same time.
Moreover, accelerometers are utilised to supply “steps” data for a vendor’s “health” application.
DIGITAL COMPASS
Mobile phones have an easy orientation to the Earth’s magnetic field thanks to the digital compass, which is often based on a magnetometer sensor. Because your phone always knows which way is North, it can automatically rotate your digital maps to match your position in space.
BAROMETER
By providing instantaneous altitude data, the barometer helps the GPS chip within the gadget acquire a lock more quickly. Additionally,
The barometer may be used to give information about “floors climbed” to a phone’s “fitness” app.
With the development of more precise indoor navigation, the barometer can help identify, for example, what floor a user is on within an airport.
BIOMETRICS
Sensors that are connected to biometrics offer higher degrees of security by collecting and verifying data related to people. such as complete facial recognition, IRIS (eye) scanning, and finger print recognition.
A more easy but also more secure method of unlocking phones and making payments is using biometric sensors.
Moreover, for use in a vendor’s “health” application, biometric sensors can be used to gather a user’s heart rate and SpO2 (the estimation of arterial oxygen saturation).
AUGMENTED & VIRTUAL REALITY
Modern smartphones’ potent CPUs and GPUs, along with the very precise sensors mentioned above, make it possible to construct Virtual Reality apps that are incredibly realistic and quick. The sensors make it possible to use augmented reality apps when coupled with a smartphone’s camera.