Title
Hot or Not - Leveraging Mobile Devices for Ubiquitous Temperature Sensing.
Abstract
This paper introduces a novel technique to measure indoor ambient air temperature using the battery temperature sensor found on typical smartphones. We develop physics-based models to predict ambient air temperature that consider the many warming and cooling scenarios faced by phones and account for the excess heat generated by smartphone components such as the CPU, screen, network, and charging hardware. To accommodate never-before-seen devices, we also develop a domain adaptation technique that leverages previously derived models, substantially reducing the overhead of learning accurate models for a new phone. We evaluate our models for a range of devices, operating scenarios, ambient temperatures, and phone cases, with mean errors generally less than 1.5% of ambient temperature. We also present a case study to demonstrate the utility of our approach for spatial and temporal monitoring of ambient temperature variations in an office building; while indoor conditions vary by as much as 13°F, mean error in measurement by our models is 1.4%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3360322.3360856
BuildSys '19: The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation New York NY USA November, 2019
Keywords
Field
DocType
Smartphone,Temperature sensing,Temperature control,Secondary sensing
Computer science,Control engineering,Mobile device,Electrical engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-7005-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joseph Breda120.86
Amee Trivedi272.23
Chulabhaya Wijesundara300.34
Phuthipong Bovornkeeratiroj411.71
David E. Irwin589998.12
Prashant J. Shenoy66386521.30
Jay Taneja767265.60