Smartphone Preventive Customized Power Saving Modes

摘要

The postulate of this paper is that current smartphones' power saving modes can be improved towardssaving more power and/or gain more user satisfaction only if they start following “preventive” and/or usercustomized power saving plans. We develop a number of preventive power saving modes that save thebattery power without the need of using the power of the same battery for detecting abusage. It will besupporting the user with a preventive plan that could give him/her an idea about what to run or don’t run.Another issue of current power saving modes is the “One Size Fits All” philosophy which does not takeinto consideration the factors that could distinguish different smartphone users, for example, the nature ofthe workspace of the user (Indoor/Outdoor), the age, the gender and/or the user’s applications categoriesof interests. The paper develops a strategy to match a smartphone power saving mode with its perfectsmartphone user by classifying smartphones users into classes depending on a set of different factors andhaving the user to identify himself/herself to the smartphone before the first use.