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However, many problems exist in current interstory drift monitoring methods. The traditional method is imprecise\u2014double numerical integration of acceleration data\u2014and other direct monitoring methods need professional equipment. This paper proposes a method to solve these problems by monitoring the interstory drift with a smartphone and a laser device. In this method, a laser device is installed on the ceiling while a smartphone is fixed on a steel projection plate on the floor. Compared with a reference sensor, the method designed in this study shows that a smartphone is competent in monitoring the interstory drift. This method utilizes a smartphone application (APP) named D-Viewer to implement monitoring and data storage just in one place, which is also inexpensive. The results showed that this method has an average percent error of 3.37%, with a standard deviation of 2.67%. 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