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Mobile Internet Device (MID) Data Acquisition (DAQ)

A Mobile Internet Device (MID) is a small portable computer designed for wireless communication and access to the Internet. Primarily designed for web browsing, e-mailing and media consumption, MIDs are increasingly in the form of smartphones and tablets that rely heavily on the Internet for remote access to web-based applications. They are targeted at cloud computing users who require a less powerful client computer.

Data acquisition is the sampling of the real world to generate data that can be manipulated by a computer. Also called DAQ, data acquisition typically involves acquisition of signals and waveforms and processing the signals to obtain desired information. The components of data acquisition systems include appropriate sensors that convert physical phenomena to an electrical signal, then conditioning the electrical signal which can then be acquired by data acquisition hardware.

Acquired data is displayed, analyzed, and stored in the MID or in the cloud, either using general purpose programming languages such as Visual BASIC, C, Python or Java or specialized programming languages used for data acquisition like LabVIEW running on your smartphone, tablet or netbook.

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Emergency alert from Android Smartphones to social media (Nanyang Technological University)