Integrating remote sensors in a smartphone: The project "sensors for ANDROID in embedded systems"

Nowadays, smartphones integrate high quality sensors and communication systems, easily managed by simple APPs under Android. On the contrary, managing remote sensors requires a big effort in programming, both on the sensor and on the Smartphone side. In this work, a solution for filling this gap is proposed, providing the instruments to easily handle remote sensors, exactly as if they were embedded in Android environment. The work exploits the Bluetooth 4.0–4.1 technology and realizes a library for remote smart sensors managing. Two new tools are described: a framework, which allows the Android developers to handle the remote resources (i.e. sensors and actuators) with the same approach to the embedded resources; a tool for programming and addressing the resources of the remote sensors. The proposed architecture is experimentally evaluated in a possible scenario of home automation.