Programming iPhone Sensors
Location enabled sensors and Augmented Reality
About the Book
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Programming iPhone Sensors is still in the process of being written, however a draft of the book is available via O'Reilly's Rough Cuts service.
This book will guide you through developing applications for the iPhone that make use of the onboard sensors: the three-axis accelerometer, the magnetometer (digital compass), the camera and the global positioning system. You?ll learn how to make use of these onboard sensors and combine them to build augmented reality applications. This will give you the background to building your own applications independently using the hottest location-aware technology yet for any mobile platforms.
About the Author
Alasdair Allan is also the author of Learning iPhone Programming. He senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter. As part of his work there he is building a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, will reactively schedule observations of time-critical events.
On the side, Alasdair runs a small technology consulting business writing bespoke software and building open hardware, and is currently developing a series of iPhone applications to monitor and manage cloud based services and distributed sensor networks.