Accelerometers in Our Pocket: Does Smartphone Accelerometer Technology Provide Accurate Data?

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 23; no. 1; p. 192
• Main Authors: Grouios, George, Ziagkas, Efthymios, Loukovitis, Andreas, Chatzinikolaou, Konstantinos, Koidou, Eirini
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 24.12.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: accelerometer accuracy; accelerometer sensors; Accelerometers; Accelerometry - methods; Accuracy; Accuracy and precision; Algorithms; Analysis; gait; Humans; Manufacturers; Movement; optoelectronic system; performance evaluation; Reproducibility of Results; Sensors; Smart phones; Smartphone; Smartphones; Vibration; Greece; performance evaluation; optoelectronic system; smartphones; gait; accelerometer sensors; accelerometer accuracy

This study evaluates accelerometer performance of three new state of the art smartphones and focuses on accuracy. The motivating research question was whether accelerator accuracy obtained with these off-the-shelf modern smartphone accelerometers was or was not statistically different from that of a...