Smart Device & Mobile Emerging Technologies Project

Sergio Daniel Lora Herrera Smart Device & Mobile Emerging Technologies Electronic Systems Engineering student Smart Device & Mobile Emerging Technologies Projects 1.- Introduction Through this course a lot of information and characteristics about smartphones and other emerging technologies were learned, a new vision about technology and its features for the future was showed. Now, in order to finalize the course, 2 projects are going to be made to show what it was learned. The first one consists in use the AIDA64 application to see all the specifications about hardware and software of both Android and iPhone smartphones. The second one is about review with other apps the network that we are using and the other neighbor networks with some of its characteristics like the PCI and the CQI. 2.- Objectives The objectives for this project are: learn how to read the specifications about our smartphones and know what does each specification mean, know the properties of a mobile network, know all the meanings of some things like PCI or RSSI and what do their values mean. 3.- Projects 3.1.- First Project For the Smartphone project, setup the project suitable to your smartphone and conduct the experiment on both Android and iPhone smartphones. Describe the smartphone types and the specs of the CPU, SoC, number of cores, memory types & sizes of each smartphone. 3.1.1.- iPhone First the iPhone specs are going to be described, this is a smartphone of my own, the Android one is borrowed by a friend. 1

Sergio Daniel Lora Herrera Smart Device & Mobile Emerging Technologies Electronic Systems Engineering student In the first picture we can see that the smartphone is an iPhone 7 that it was released in September 16 of 2016, we also can see their capabilities which are Cellular, GPS, NFC (Near Field Communication) and Force Touch (that includes 3D Touch). 2

Sergio Daniel Lora Herrera Smart Device & Mobile Emerging Technologies Electronic Systems Engineering student In this second picture we can see other specifications like the Bluetooth which is the version 4.2 with BLE (Low Energy). And some of the physical properties, its water resistance is IP 67 that means 6 = Dust Tight and 7 = Immersion up to 1 m, also its dimensions of width, height, depth and weight. In this picture we can see the processor specs like the CPU that is an Apple A10 with 2330 MHz speed and TSMC as the manufacturer. It’s a 64-bit with ARMv8-A, the technology is about 16 nm with 4 count cores. 3

Sergio Daniel Lora Herrera Smart Device & Mobile Emerging Technologies Electronic Systems Engineering student Also the GPU properties are showed, with a GPU type of PowerVR and a total of 6 GPU cores, also an Apple M10 co-processor. About the memory, this device is a 128 GB model with a total storage of 119.20 GB. The total RAM (Random Access Memory) is 2002 MB or 2 GB. 4

Sergio Daniel Lora Herrera Smart Device & Mobile Emerging Technologies Electronic Systems Engineering student Finally, in this part we can see the specs of the OS (Operating System), it is iOS version 13.5.1 with Multitasking available. Now, with all these specs seen about iPhone, the project is going to move out to Android. 3.1.2.- Android This smartphone belongs to a friend and the specifications are in Spanish, but in this project they are going to be described in English. 5

Sergio Daniel Lora Herrera Smart Device & Mobile Emerging Technologies Electronic Systems Engineering student In the first picture we can see that the smartphone is a Huawei P30, its Bluetooth version is the 5.0, the platform and the hardware is the kirin980. We can also see the memory, the total memory is 110.15 GB, the installed RAM memory is 5624 MB or 6 GB. 6

Sergio Daniel Lora Herrera Smart Device & Mobile Emerging Technologies Electronic Systems Engineering student In the CPU specs we can see that the SoC is a HiSilicon Kirin 980, the architecture of the core consists in 4 cores with ARM Cortex-A55 with a speed of 1805 MHz, 2 cores of HiSilicon Cortex-A76 with a speed of 1920 MHz and 2 cores of HiSilicon Cortex-A76 with a speed of 2600 MHz. The technology is 7 nm and ARMv8-A of 64 bits. The CPU has a total of 8 cores with clocks between the ranges of 826 – 2600 MHz. 7

Sergio Daniel Lora Herrera Smart Device & Mobile Emerging Technologies Electronic Systems Engineering student In the part of the OS we can see that it is an Android version 10 with an API level of 29. 3.2.- Second Project For the Mobile Network project, setup the project suitable to your smartphone and conduct the experiments. Describe the location of where you experienced the largest number of Neighbor Base Stations, and how many were there. In addition, describe the PCI, RSSI, RSRP, RSRQ, RSSNR, ASU, and CQI values measured. In the following pictures we can see the values of the Serving Cell Measurements of my mobile network, the measured RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) is at -94.50 dBm that is a low level such as the average RSRP (Reference Signal Received Power) with -138.25 dBm. The PCI (Physical Cell ID) is 0, the average RSRQ (Reference Signal Received Quality) is -30 dBm that is good. Finally, the measured RSRP and RSRQ are at levels of -75.25 dBm and -30 dBm. 8

Sergio Daniel Lora Herrera Smart Device & Mobile Emerging Technologies Electronic Systems Engineering student For this project I could only go to a limited number of places, and the place where I found the largest number of neighbor base stations was near my house, near a TV tower, I found 2 neighbor base stations. Here is the example of one of them: 9

Sergio Daniel Lora Herrera Smart Device & Mobile Emerging Technologies Electronic Systems Engineering student In this picture we can see that the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) and the RSRP are very low at a range of -140 dBm, a PCI (Physical Cell ID) is 74, the average RSRP (Reference Signal Received Power) is good with -11.00 dBm. The average RSRQ (Reference Signal Received Quality) is at -17.25 dBm that represents a good quality. 4.- Conclusions At the end of this course and the project I learned about the technology of the smart devices such as mu smartphone, I could see and read most of the hardware and software specifications of my smartphone like the dimensions, the CPU, how many cores does the CPU have, the different types of memory and their capacities; and understand what does any of them mean. Also I could know terms like RSSI or CPI and read their values in each network. 5.- Bibliography All of the theory was extracted from my notes about the course. 10