Comparer des méthodes

	Collecte de données par capteurs testée en phase pilote	Collecte de données longitudinales par capteurs
Domaine	Méthodologie d'enquête	Méthodologie d'enquête
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1990s–2000s (formalized with proliferation of digital sensing technologies)	1990s–2000s (accelerated with IoT and wearable devices from ~2010)
Auteur d'origine	General research methods practice; sensor pilot testing codified through IoT and environmental monitoring literature	Emerging from ambulatory assessment and wearable technology research communities
Type	Data collection procedure with pre-deployment validation phase	Longitudinal quantitative/mixed data collection technique
Source fondatrice	Creswell, J. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2018). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (5th ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-1506386706	Lanza, S. T., Collins, L. M., Lemmon, D. R., & Schafer, J. L. (2005). PROC LCA: A SAS procedure for latent class analysis. Structural Equation Modeling, 14(4), 671–694. [For longitudinal intensive repeated-measures designs context, see also: Shiffman, S., Stone, A. A., & Hufford, M. R. (2008). Ecological momentary assessment. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 4, 1–32.]
Alias	sensor pilot study, sensor pre-deployment testing, instrument validation with sensors, sensor calibration pilot	long-term sensor monitoring, longitudinal sensing, continuous sensor logging, repeated-measures sensor collection
Apparentées	6	3
Résumé	Pilot-tested sensor data collection is a structured data gathering approach in which sensor instruments — hardware or software-based devices that measure physical, environmental, physiological, or behavioral signals — are deployed in a small-scale trial before the main study. The pilot phase verifies sensor accuracy, communication reliability, data format consistency, and placement adequacy, allowing researchers to identify and correct technical problems before full-scale data collection begins.	Longitudinal sensor data collection deploys physical or digital sensors to record phenomena continuously or at regular intervals across an extended study period — days, months, or years. Unlike one-shot measurement, the repeated temporal structure captures change, trajectory, and variability in outcomes such as physical activity, environmental exposure, sleep, or physiological state. The approach combines the ecological validity of real-world sensing with the analytical power of longitudinal design.