Affiliation:
1. Department of Acoustics, Multimedia and Signal Processing Faculty of Electronics, Fotonics and Microsystems Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 50-350 Wroclaw, Poland
Abstract
This paper presents the results of a study on software correction of speed measurements taken by GNSS receivers installed in cell phones and sports watches. Digital low-pass filters were used to compensate for fluctuations in measured speed and distance. Real data obtained from popular running applications for cell phones and smartwatches were used for simulations. Various measurement situations were analyzed, such as running at a constant speed or interval running. Taking a very high accuracy GNSS receiver as the reference equipment, the solution proposed in the article reduces the measurement error of the traveled distance by 70%. In the case of measuring speed in interval running, the error could be reduced by up to 80%. The low-cost implementation allows simple GNSS receivers to approach the quality of distance and speed estimation of very precise and expensive solutions.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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