Abstract
The amount of light is an important issue in several scenarios ranging from scenic design, light pollution study, illumination engineering, and agriculture. It is typically determined by using a portable digital light or lux meter. By realizing that the proliferation of cell phones is currently tremendous, this paper proposes for the first time a low-cost cell phone based digital light meter. Our innovative idea comes from the fact that the digital camera built into the cell phone is functioned as a two-dimensional light sensitive device and the captured image can be made diffuse. In this way, the diffused image is correlated to the corresponding light level by the built-in microprocessor of the cell phone and our specific algorithm embedded. Our experiment using a typical cell phone embedded with a digital camera and our JAVA program will be discussed.
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