Mobile Phone Based Radio Meter

i-Quest/Media Audit/IPSOS are working together to design a solution based on smartphones to measure exposure to radio. They aim at near real-time monitoring of the stations listened. Technologies used are GPS for positioning, GPRS for data transmission and encoded signals (inserted in the radio chain of radio station) for channel detection.

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Relation to my thesis: This project aims at monitoring at near real-time a specific user activity in an uncontrolled environment (the world…).