Adaptively controlling a tradeoff between computational accuracy and power consumption of a mobile device that operates to select a condition of a subject or device

A system for adaptively controlling a tradeoff between computational accuracy and power consumption of a tracking device, comprising:

• the tracking device that is connectable to an upstream server, the tracking device operative to:
• receive a set of predetermined tasks of an object associated with the tracking device;
• selectively activate a plurality sensors of the tracking device based on the set of predetermined tasks;
• estimate, by one or more sensors of the selectively activated plurality of sensors of the tracking device, a plurality of locations of the tracking device, comprising:
• receiving, by a first radio of the tracking device attached to the object, wireless signals from a plurality of base stations of a first network, wherein the wireless signals include information of each of the plurality of base stations of the first network that transmitted a corresponding wireless signal;
• sensing, by the tracking device, motion of the object;
• sampling, by the tracking device, the received wireless signals at least three times in response to the sensing motion of the object;
• downloading to the tracking device through a second radio of the tracking device from a second network, characterizations of the wireless signals along a same route of transit, wherein the characterizations of the wireless signals are previously determined by a high-power location monitoring device that previously measured and stored received wireless signal qualities while receiving the wireless signals from the plurality of base station while travelling the same route of transit;
• estimating the plurality of locations of the tracking device based on signal characteristic of the samples of the received wireless signals received from the plurality of plurality of base stations, the information of the plurality of base stations, and predetermined knowledge of a transportation mode that is transporting the object including the characterizations of the wireless signals;
• tracking device further operative to:
• sense, by the plurality of selectively activated sensors, sensed information of the tracking device;
• and
• wherein at least one of the tracking device or the upstream server is operative to select a condition of the object based on the plurality of estimated location, the set of predetermined tasks, and the sensed information of the plurality of selectively activated sensors.