McGonigle Andrew J S, Wilkes Thomas C, Pering Tom D, Willmott Jon R, Cook Joseph M, Mims Forrest M, Parisi Alfio V
Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia.
Sensors (Basel). 2018 Jan 14;18(1):223. doi: 10.3390/s18010223.
Smartphones are playing an increasing role in the sciences, owing to the ubiquitous proliferation of these devices, their relatively low cost, increasing processing power and their suitability for integrated data acquisition and processing in a 'lab in a phone' capacity. There is furthermore the potential to deploy these units as nodes within Internet of Things architectures, enabling massive networked data capture. Hitherto, considerable attention has been focused on imaging applications of these devices. However, within just the last few years, another possibility has emerged: to use smartphones as a means of capturing spectra, mostly by coupling various classes of fore-optics to these units with data capture achieved using the smartphone camera. These highly novel approaches have the potential to become widely adopted across a broad range of scientific e.g., biomedical, chemical and agricultural application areas. In this review, we detail the exciting recent development of smartphone spectrometer hardware, in addition to covering applications to which these units have been deployed, hitherto. The paper also points forward to the potentially highly influential impacts that such units could have on the sciences in the coming decades.
由于智能手机的广泛普及、相对较低的成本、不断增强的处理能力以及其以“手机实验室”的能力进行集成数据采集和处理的适用性，它们在科学领域正发挥着越来越重要的作用。此外，还有可能将这些设备作为物联网架构中的节点进行部署，从而实现大规模的网络数据捕获。迄今为止，这些设备的成像应用受到了相当大的关注。然而，就在过去几年里，另一种可能性出现了：将智能手机用作捕获光谱的手段，主要是通过将各类前置光学元件与这些设备耦合，并利用智能手机摄像头实现数据捕获。这些极具创新性的方法有可能在广泛的科学领域，如生物医学、化学和农业应用领域中得到广泛应用。在这篇综述中，我们详细介绍了智能手机光谱仪硬件最近令人兴奋的发展情况，此外还涵盖了这些设备迄今为止已被应用的领域。本文还展望了此类设备在未来几十年可能对科学产生的极具影响力的影响。
