QinganZhao/Distributed-Displacement-monitoring-Using-Smartphones

This project is a research artifact from circa 2015-2016. With only 5 stars and zero velocity over the last 8 years, it serves as a historical reference rather than a living tool. The defensibility is near zero because smartphone-based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has since evolved significantly, utilizing more advanced sensor fusion (Kalman filters, AI-based noise reduction) and computer vision techniques that this repository lacks. While the core idea of using ubiquitous hardware for infrastructure monitoring is interesting, frontier labs have no incentive to enter this niche, industrial civil engineering space. However, specialized industrial IoT firms (e.g., Bentley Systems, Trimble) and modern academic research have long surpassed the capabilities of this specific implementation. It is easily reproducible by any graduate-level engineering student using modern mobile development frameworks like Flutter or Swift and standard signal processing libraries.