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Smartphone Optical Sensors
Optical add-ons and apps that take advantage of smartphones’ connectivity and computing power are opening up opportunities in education, food safety, health care and environmental monitoring.
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Smartphones and wearable devices empower much of our everyday lives, providing driving directions, offering organizational help and facilitating social connections. The integrated sensors in these devices allow tens of millions of people to use them for monitoring their health by tracking physical activity, heart rate and sleep. The optical sensing of the phone’s high-resolution camera offers a link to GPS tagging for in-situ mapping, and to cloud-based computational power to run complex analysis.
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