Table 1.
A structured comparison of related work with SensorHub shows the unique advantages of SensorHub over alternative solutions. Cells with a ’?’ mark information that is not included in public information about the respective system.
| Open Source |
External Sensors |
EMA | Home- Based 1 Studies |
Visuali- Zations |
Backend 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phyphox | GNU GPL | no | no | no | yes | yes |
| Physics Toolbox Suite Pro |
no | no | no | no | yes | no |
| RADAR-base | Apache-2.0 | yes (5) 3 | yes 4 | no | yes | yes |
| Science Journal | Apache-2.0 | yes 5 | no | no | yes | yes 6 |
| Thryve | no | yes | yes | ? | ? | ? |
| SensorHub | MIT | yes (8) 7 | yes | yes | yes | yes |
1 Using the system for study execution is possible without frequent contact between researcher and subject. 2 Data is stored not only on the phone but there is also a backend server able to handle large amounts of data and store them securely. 3 Empatica E4, Pebble 2, Bittium Faros, Biovotion Everion, Fitbit Charge 2. 4 In form of an additional application. 5 Can connect to Arduino and Vernier devices. 6 Via Google Account. 7 See paragraph Consumer Hardware for Data Acquisition in Section 4.1.