Can an iPod Touch be used to assess whole-body vibration associated with mining equipment?

Title: Can an iPod Touch be used to assess whole-body vibration associated with mining equipment?
Creator: Wolfgang, Rebecca; Di Corleto, Luke; Burgess-Limerick, Robin
Relation: The Annals of Occupational Hygiene Vol. 58, Issue 9, p. 1200-1204
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/annhyg/meu054
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2014
Description: The cost and complexity of commercially available whole-body vibration measurement devices is a barrier to the systematic collection of the information required to manage this hazard. The potential for a consumer electronic device to be used to estimate whole-body vibration was assessed by collecting 58 simultaneous pairs of acceleration measurements in three dimensions from a fifth-generation iPod Touch and gold standard whole-body vibration measurement devices, while a range of heavy mining equipment was operated at three surface coal mines. The results suggest that accelerometer data gathered from a consumer electronic device are able to be used to measure whole-body vibration amplitude with 95% confidence of ±0.06 m s(-2) root mean square for the vertical direction (1.96 × standard deviation of the constant error).
Subject: consumer electronic device; mining equipment; whole-body vibration
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1304671
Identifier: uon:20899
Identifier: ISSN:0003-4878
Language: eng
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