Smartphone As A Tool For Different Applications
Smartphone As A Tool For Different Applications
Smartphone As A Tool For Different Applications
K.R. Chowdhary
Professor & Head (Retd.)
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
MBM Engg. College, JNV University, Jodhpur, India
Abstract
Smartphone is not just an electronic gadget. It has become technical assistant. Smartphone has affected almost all areas of human
life. The main areas are education, health, business and social life and other. This paper shows some applications of Smartphone
in different areas. As an application of Smartphone, one experiment was performed, where noise pollution level at different areas
of Jodhpur city was measured by Smartphone.
Keywords: Smartphone, Apps, Business, Education, Health
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I. INTRODUCTION
Todays mobile phones are not just talking/calling device. They have become one of the main accessories of human beings.
Smart phones have become technical assistant. Apart from calling and receiving a phone call, it provides many daily life
facilities such as time/date, alarms, reminder notes, weather update, calculator, stock updates, booking tickets, online banking,
money transfer, messaging Apps( like WhatsApp, Line, Viber, Telegram etc) .
Smartphones are being easily used by people , even though they never used a computer. They are using WhatsApp, Facebook
etc very easily on smartphones. From 1990 to 2011, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew from 12.4 million to over 6
billion, penetrating about 87% of the global population [1].
Next section discusses the applications of Smartphone in different areas and III shows Experiment and discussions.
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3) Recordroid - Students can use Recordroid to create audio recording notes. Files created will be sent to their desktop
computer via e-mail, so they can review what the teacher said at home.
4) myHomework - This app lists the deadlines for homework. It also tracks the difficulty level of assignments, so students can
do the easier ones first.
5) Dictionary.com (HIND KHOJ)- Some dictionaries are too thick to carry. The smaller ones are not even complete. Download
the Dictionary.com app and a student can have about 2 million words available with just a swipe of a finger.
6) Instapaper - If a student finds something very useful on the Internet but doesnt have the time to read it now they can get
Instapaper. This app turns any webpage into readable offline content, so students can read it later, even without an Internet
connection.
2) Smartphone as Teaching Tools
Smartphone can be used as powerful teaching tool. The following are some Apps [5] and tools which can be used for teaching;
1) Dropbox - This app is great for distributing information. Teachers can tell their students to make Dropbox accounts and
create class-shared folders so that students can just submit their essays and projects from their computers or smartphones.
Dropbox can save teachers time and paper.
2) 2. Personal Assistant - This can help organize thoughts, make a to-do list, and prepare a lesson plan.
3) 3. Attendance Countdown - If teachers want to track students attendance, they can just download Attendance Count
down. It offers a countdown board and a calendar. This app also helps teachers to keep on track with their curriculum.
4) 4. TeacherKit - This app turns a teachers phone into a full-fledged personal digital assistant. It can record the grades of
students, rank the students according to their grades, keep track of their attendance, and anything else a teacher needs. Teach
C. Health/ Healthcare
A study by [2] shows that almost half of the all pharmacists are using Smartphone for their professional purpose and keeping
healthcare related records/information as shown in the figure 1.
Smartphone are used by both the medical professionals and patients. On the patients side, Smartphone can be easily used to
measure blood pressure, sugar level even ECG Apps are also available where The apps data can be immediately analyzed,
graphed, displayed on-screen updated with new measurements, stored and shared.
For healthcare workers many Smartphone apps are available to get specific information in areas of radiology, neurology,
physiology, pediatrics, and continuing medical activities easily [4].
III. EXPERIMENT
Noise pollution level at different places of Jodhpur city was measured using Smartphone (Samsung GT-I8262). To record noise
pollution level Sound Meter App was used. Readings were taken for five days at peak hours at different places as shown in Table
I.
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Table 1
Noise Pollution Level Recorded At Different Places
Day/Place Paota Sojati -Gate Jalori-Get
Day-01
83
90
86
Day-02
85
93
88
Day-03
86
92
87
Day-04
84
93
88
Day-05
82
92
86
Avg Value 84dB
92dB
87dB
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my deep sense of gratitude and whole hearted thanks to my guide Dr. K.R. Chowdhary Sir, for giving his
valuable guidance, inspiration and encouragement to complete this paper. Without his support, guidance and assistance this
paper would not have been completed.
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