{"id":930,"date":"2011-06-29T16:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T06:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2011-06-29T16:57:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T06:57:43","slug":"android-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Android applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like toys and my latest is a cheap Android phone &#8211; a <strong>Garmin Asus A50<\/strong> &#8211; great GPS and not a bad Android operating system for under AUD$200. Its really a GPS with a phone capability.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally I am interested in what can be done, particularly with the camera, WiFi and Bluetooth facilities. I have also found a quite good <strong>spirit level<\/strong> and a <strong>heart rate monitor <\/strong>(my phone does not have a flash, so the ambient light acts as the light source for a crude oximeter-like device. It may even be possible to estimate blood oxygen saturation with a similar approach. The frequency reposne of the microphone and accelerometers limit their use as <strong>sound level meters<\/strong>\/ <strong>noise dosimeters<\/strong> and <strong>vibration meters<\/strong>. Similarly there are Andoid applications using the light sensor as a crude <strong>luxmeter<\/strong>. A <strong>stethescope <\/strong>has been a great hit for the iPhone, with millions of downlaods. The ability to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geotagging\" target=\"_blank\">geotag<\/a><\/strong> photos on large or remote sites is a definite plus.<\/p>\n<p>I was intrigued to find an android camera applicataion for air visbility monitoring &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/robotics.usc.edu\/~mobilesensing\/visibility\/MobileAirQualitySensing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Visibility Monitoring using Mobile Phones<\/a>, but I am yet to test it &#8211; too many trees obscure the skyline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android phones and other phones with sensors may find a place in OHS practice, even if the phone sensors are crude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[190,191],"class_list":{"0":"post-930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fun-2","7":"tag-android","8":"tag-sensors","9":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}