Software as a Service (SAAS) services for measuring physical quantities, namely, acceleration, gravity, orientation, magnetic field, barometric pressure, humidity, device temperature, ambient temperature, ambient noise, vibration, near field, battery charge, current draw, voltage, wind speed, altitude, light quality and magnitude, and material thickness and property; SAAS services for acquiring system information, namely, central processing unit status, graphical processing unit frequency, cores, utilization, screen status, screen brightness, short range communication connectivity, wireless local area networks, cellular state information, GPS information; SAAS services for data management, and for development, calibration, training, and testing of mathematical, statistical, and machine learning models for the purpose of parameter estimation and prediction