Retrofitting smartphones to be used as particulate matter dosimeters

This work discusses ways of measuring particulate matter with mobile devices. Solutions using a dedicated sensor device are presented along with a novel method of retrofitting a sensor to a camera phone without need for electrical modifications. Instead, the flash and camera of the phone are used as light source and receptor of an optical dust sensor respectively. Experiments to evaluate the accuracy are presented.

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