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Location-based services on mobile phones: minimizing power consumption

IEEE Pervasive ComputingPublished 10 May 2010
M. B. Kjasrgaard
Citations72
SJR quartileQ3
SJR score0.38
SNIP0.69

TL;DR

This survey of power conservation methods profiles how different phone features and types of LBSs consume power and discusses related design considerations.

Abstract

Location-based services have to pay careful attention to their power consumption in order not to drain the batteries of mobile phones. It is not a simple task to build low power location-based services that can run for hours because such services make heavy use of many power consuming features of mobile phones. In this article we discuss the power consumption of location-based services and mobile phone features, survey methods for how to minimize power consumption and summarize a number of design considerations for location-based service developers.

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Computer ScienceEngineeringSocial Sciences