Measuring a room with an iPhone

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Ben Williams picture Ben Williams · Jul 7, 2010 · Viewed 11.2k times · Source

I have a need to measure a room (if possible) from within an iPhone application, and I'm looking for some ideas on how I can achieve this. Extreme accuracy is not important, but accuracy down to say 1 foot would be good. Some ideas I've had so far are:

  • Walk around the room and measure using GPS. Unlikely to be anywhere near accurate enough, particularly for iPod touch users
  • Emit sounds from the microphone and measure how long they take to return. There are some apps out there that do this already, such as PocketMeter. I suspect this would not be user friendly, and more gimmicky than practical.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Answer

matt-dot-net picture matt-dot-net · Jul 7, 2010

You could stand in one corner and throw the phone against the far corner. The phone could begin measurement at a certain point of acceleration and end measurement at deceleration

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