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@@ -1754,433 +1754,19 @@ The battery life on modern smartphones rarely exceeds 24 hours of typical
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-Experimentation
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-Battery use
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-The average lifetime of a typical Android mobile telephone will need to
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- be ascertained, taking into consideration typical day-to-day use of the
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- device and any additional battery drain caused by that.
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-Once this is complete, a selection of algorithms and suitable parameters
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- The aim of the selection should be to ensure the best activity detection
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-Location analysis
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-, existing algorithms to detect interesting places rely on GPS signals not
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- It may be possible to adapt these algorithms to work instead using the
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- GSM signal strength or number of locked GPS satellites.
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- The variance of these when inside and outside a building need to be investigate
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-d to determine if this is a feasible approach, or whether an alternate algorithm
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-A suitable algorithm should be implemented which allows the user's activity
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