Sensor Play - Data Recorder

Sensor Play - Data Recorder

By Philip Broder

  • Category: Utilities
  • Release Date: 2014-10-05
  • Current Version: 5.5
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 15.99 MB
  • Developer: Philip Broder
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 11.0
Score: 4.68
4.68
From 50 Ratings

Description

Sensor Play - the iPhone Sensor Playground, and the best app for serious scientific research and data recording. Used by engineers, scientists, teachers, and enthusiasts all around the world. The sensors built into all iPhones are amazing examples of the power in your pocket. To have a GPS receiver, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, even a Barometer with you at all times is a marvel of miniature engineering. It's simply fun to see the output from all these sensors, play with each interactively, or just view the raw data. Record Accelerometer, Gyroscope, GPS, Barometer, Magnetometer sensor data and share by email for further analysis, or review using the in app viewer. However Sensor Play is not just a toy. Beyond the obvious fun of watching the accelerometer and gyroscope graphs bounce around you can now record multi-sensor data all at the same time, even in the background, for a full external analysis of your, or your iPhone's, motion through time and space however you so desire. And now with Automation you can trigger your recordings to start either after a simple delay, when you enter or leave a preset GPS Region, or when the iPhone is nudged above a selected gForce. Then end your recordings either after a set duration, or when you enter or leave a preset GPS Region. Automation makes getting the data you want so much easier, and eliminates lots of unnecessary recorded data. Set up the triggers as required, close the phone and go. Set and Forget! Later when you open SensorPlay the data you were after will have been automatically recorded and saved for you. The following data is recorded to a csv file for sharing through the standard iPhone share sheet. Timestamp Accelerometer: X, Y, Z Gyroscope: X, Y, Z Attitude: Roll, Pitch, Yaw Location: Longitude, Latitude, Speed, TrueHeading, Altitude Motion Activity: Type & Confidence Barometer: Pressure, Relative Altitude Magnetometer: µT X, Y, Z, calibrated x,y,z, rotation matrix, and quaternion Visual graphs of sensor recordings in one place, as long as they're not too large anyway. Background mode is supported for all recordings, accelerometer, gyro, and multi-sensor export, lock your screen and keep recording all sensor data for up to six hours. A serious engineering, scientific, and educational analysis tool. Sharing of all recordings is now through the built in share options which includes, Airdrop, mail, message, notes, dropbox (if installed), etc. Sensors currently supported: Barometer (iPhone 6 and above only) - see the atmospheric pressure in a choice of 7 units, see your relative altitude plotted over time. - Widget available to display the atmospheric pressure in the notification centre. Accelerometer - See the g-forces on the X,Y,Z axis and see them traced over time. - Widget available to show gMax in X,Y,Z axis on notification screen. - Record the data and share for further analysis Gyroscope - Watch the rate of rotation over the X,Y,Z axis plotted over time. - Record the data and share for further analysis GPS/Location Services - See your exact location mapped on screen and share your Lat/Long coordinates by text or email. Magnetometer/Compass - See the magnetic field acting on the X, Y, Z, axis along with an interactive compass. 3D/Force Touch (6S ->11 only) Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

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Reviews

  • Works as adevertized

    5
    By stop asking for a nuckname
    This was the only app I found to easy capture the telemetry data I was looking for. I tried several other app export data was challenging, logs were in accurate. I have two suggestion, the app needs some documentation, specifically what all the data headers are. When I airdrop the data and open I in excel and there are tons on columns some of which I don’t know what they are.
  • Great App!!!

    5
    By Sacramento75
    I’ve used several sensor apps on iPhone, and this is my favorite. I like the intuitive interface and the ability to record for long periods. I’ve used it in many applications, including precision analysis of aircraft motion during test flights.
  • Good but not perfect.

    5
    By dennis wingo
    Works great on my iPhone 11 except for the following that I have found so far. I set it to record for 45,000 seconds (750 minutes or 12.5 hours) and it shuts off at 6:00 hours. Also, I set the multi sensor recording to trigger on a g level and it only triggers on -g levels on the 2 g scale. I flew my iPhone 11 on a Blue Origin flight and found this out the hard way.
  • Very Good but not complete !!

    4
    By Rouelf
    1) CMCalibratedMagnetic Field x, y, z are always zero (0), on iPhone 8+ and my iPad. 2) Though CMMagnetometer values are useful for somethings, CLHeadingComponent Values x, y, z (micro Tesla), are better for calculating stuff, IMHO, CLHeading: I believe, Represents a vector pointing to magnetic North. Please fix, and add CLHeading Magnetic Data 🤓😎.
  • App works fine - impressive!

    5
    By Karl--M
    Does a nice job of displaying output of all the phones sensors. Easy to use. Straightforward menus. No errors yet.
  • Sensors Play vs Sensors Pro

    3
    By astaley
    I’m still trying to figure out the difference between the two app. I brought this one before noticing the other app. I like the darker blue background of Sensors Pro, is there a way to match that in Sensors Play? I don’t know, not that I can tell. If it was clarified the difference between the two apps (see above) and if custom background colors/gradients were an option, that would make this a 5-star app!
  • Awesome support!!

    5
    By goomba1793
    Phil was INCREDIBLY responsive to an issue regarding compatibility between Sensor Play, iPhone 7 and versions of iOS11. Ultimately we got the issue straightened out and I can continue playing around with the very cool tool he built. There are incredible possibilities with Sensor Play and exploring is most of the fun!!
  • Well worth the $5.

    5
    By JackMCE747
    Graphs are awesome, data recording feature is invaluable and records data as .csv file.
  • Not working

    1
    By Alli1971
    Every time I try to view a file, the app quits.
  • How do u delete old traces

    4
    By Data looker
    I like the app, useful, would like some calibration to know phones accuracy. I haven't found the way to delete collected traces

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