Researchers develop applications that extend smartphone battery duration by 10 to 25%

by Rodion Kutsaev

The team of Waterloo University in Canada succeeded in developing a mobile application that can reduce energy consumption of devices without significantly affecting the performance of smartphones. This application can extend the smartphone battery up to 1 hour per day. However, since the developed application is intended for Android devices, it is impossible to increase the battery duration of iPhone.

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An application that can extend the battery duration of Android terminal by 10 to 25% is published in IEEE Access of the application open access journal. Android has a screen division mode that displays multiple applications simultaneously on the screen from " Android 7.0 Nougat " which appeared in August 2016. Professor Kshirasagar Naik, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Waterloo University, who was involved in application development, says "screen splitting function invites unnecessary energy consumption".

According to Professor Naik, the developed application will be installed on the terminal and the battery consumption will be reduced by "reducing the brightness of non-critical applications". In other words, when "non-critical applications" are used with the screen splitting function, the brightness of the screen on which the application is displayed decreases and the battery consumption is saved. As a result of experiments conducted on 200 smartphone users, battery sustenance has increased by 10 to 25% due to energy saving technology of the application.

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Professor Naik said, "Many people now charge smartphones in the evening and the batteries are 100% when they leave the house the next day, but smartphones are not visible in many computations, We are carrying out communications, and these are going to consume battery more and more. " Trying to save ones that prompt battery consumption of Android terminal such as calculation processing capacity and communication function will have a big influence on terminal performance. However, in the case of the Android application developed by Naik Professor et al., It only adjusts the brightness of the screen intentionally, so it is possible to extend the battery duration without affecting terminal performance.

Also, when the smartphone repeatedly consumes excessive energy, "It may be necessary to replace the battery that should be used for 3 years with 2 years, as the battery deteriorates," Naik said, It is said that the developed application will also help to reduce such 'waste of battery'.

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Reducing the brightness of the screen is also effective for reducing battery consumption, which is also introduced in smartphone battery saving techniques.

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