Participatory sensing is the concept of communities (or other groups of people) contributing sensory information to form a body of knowledge.[1]
Description
A growth in mobile devices, for example smartphones, tablet computers or activity trackers, which have multiple sensors, has made participatory sensing viable in the large-scale. Participatory sensing can be used to retrieve information about the environment, weather, noise pollution,[2] urban mobility,[3]congestion as well as any other sensory information that collectively forms knowledge.
Such open communication systems could pose challenges to the veracity of transmitted information. Individual sensors may require a trusted platform[4] or hierarchical trust structures.[5]
Additional challenges include, but are not limited to, effective incentives for participation,[6] security,[7] reputation[8] and privacy.[9]
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^Wang, Xinlei; Cheng, Wei; Mohapatra, Prasant; Abdelzaher, Tarek (2014). "Enabling reputation and trust in privacy-preserving mobile sensing". IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 13 (12): 2777–2790. doi:10.1109/TMC.2013.150. S2CID17760599.
^Emiliano De Cristofaro; Soriente, Claudio (2013). "Participatory Privacy: Enabling Privacy in Participatory Sensing". IEEE Network. 27 (1). arXiv:1201.4376.
