AllClearSensorLibrary

A new foreground sensor library for Android.

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A new foreground sensor library for Android.

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I make All Clear Weather (Android, US-only for now, see below for why) because I demand better of weather apps. Many of the top weather apps [1] do nothing but display…

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cryptoz·Aug 29, 2021

My hobby is using Android phones to take weather measurements and hopefully one day, be useful in weather prediction. I make an app that has this feature (along with other ML experiments), US only for now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearwe... I plan to make better visualizations from the data, with the most ideal being an isobar map made just from phone pressure data. Here is an animation (not isobar) of Hurricane Dorian (2019) I made: https://www.allclearweather.com/hurricane-dorian All this is done with the open source library I write: https://github.com/JacobSheehy/AllClearSensorLibrary I obviously plan to make more visualizations for Ida once more data is in, and hopefully better ones too. Sorry for the rushed quality, but you know, the storm is landfalling as we speak. (edit: and yes iPhones have barometers

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too, but I'm an Android dev so iOS app will take a while).

In Show HN: Hurricane Ida's pressure falling in Louisiana, data from Android phones

cryptoz·Aug 21, 2021

I've been researching this stuff on and off for about 10 years. Here's a graph I made of Sandy using the same kind of tech but a previous project: [https://imgur.com/r/sandy/c87tV](https://imgur.com/r/sandy/c... I also more recently made an animation of [Hurricane Dorian's approach to Florida](https://allclearweather.com/hurricane-dorian). And of course, the barometer code for this on Android is an [open source library](https://github.com/JacobSheehy/AllClearSensorLibrary) I write to encourage other Android devs to do similar work. Cheers and stay safe.

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cryptoz·Apr 18, 2021

I'm working on using smartphone sensors to detect anything they can relating to weather, including space weather - magnetic storms. I've been fascinated with crowdsourcing mobile sensor data for like 10 years now and it's only going to get more interesting: air quality sensors should be making their way to phones soon, others as well. My open source library with limited sensor features is here: https://github.com/JacobSheehy/AllClearSensorLibrary for Android 'background' access to sensors (using foreground library). I don't think that I've got magnetic data there yet but it's mostly a matter of adding another field. I've got this running live in an Android app if you want to check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearwe... (US-only for now, sorry about that, international weather data is pricey) I typically t

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rack hurricanes with obvious low-pressure curves but there's a lot more that can be done. Crowdsourcing sensor data from phones: Accelerometers can detect earthquakes, Microphones can detect noise pollution, Magnetometers can detect solar activity, Barometers can detect weather changes Most phones have those sensors now, and I'm looking out for UV sensors, air quality sensors, and more. The applications of crowdsourcing sensor data are immense and constantly improving as new sensors get added. -- The main issues honestly are privacy and noise filtering. Ensemble kalman filters running on device can reduce noise dramatically, and you can use anonymizing features like geographic bounding boxes (where sensors can go in and out and only their bounding box is used as location data)

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