Less is more: energy-efficient mobile sensing with senseless

  • Authors:
  • Fehmi Ben Abdesslem;Andrew Phillips;Tristan Henderson

  • Affiliations:
  • University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom;University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom;University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Networking, systems, and applications for mobile handhelds
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present SenseLess, a system that leverages the different energy consumption characteristics of sensors to maximise battery life in mobile-sensing applications. We use the less expensive sensors more often, thereby enabling us to use the more expensive sensors less frequently. In the context of location-aware services, experimental results indicate that for a typical indoor and outdoor walk, compared to a simple GPS-based system, our SenseLess system can reduce energy consumption by more than 58% when determining a user's location, while maintaining the fidelity of the sensed data. This extends the battery life of a typical handheld device from 9 hours to 22 hours.