Participatory sensing is the concept of communities (or other groups of people) contributing sensory information to form a body of knowledge.[1]

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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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References

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  1. ^ wilsoncenter.org
  2. ^ Rana, Rajib; Chou, Chun-tung; Bulusu, Nirupama; Kanhere, Salil; Hu, Wen (2015). "Ear-Phone: A Context-Aware Noise Mapping Using Smart Phones". Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 17 (A): 1–22. arXiv:1310.4270. doi:10.1016/j.pmcj.2014.02.001. S2CID 2029253.
  3. ^ Xiao-Feng Xie & Zun-Jing Wang. (2015). "An empirical study of combining participatory and physical sensing to better understand and improve urban mobility networks." (PDF). Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, USA.
  4. ^ Akshay Dua; Nirupama Bulusu; Wu-Chang Feng & Wen Hu. (2009). "Towards trustworthy participatory sensing". In Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Hot topics in security. HotSec'09. USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, USA. p. 8.
  5. ^ Raghu K. Ganti; Nam Pham; Yu-En Tsai & Tarek F. Abdelzaher (2008). "oolView: stream privacy for grassroots participatory sensing". Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 281–294. doi:10.1145/1460412.1460440.
  6. ^ Juong-Sik Lee and Baik Hoh. 2010. Sell Your Experiences: A Market Mechanism based Incentive for Participatory Sensing. In Proceedings of the 8th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom'10), IEEE Computer Society, March 29 - April 2, 2010, Mannheim, Germany.
  7. ^ J. Burke, D. Estrin, M. Hansen, A. Parker, N. Ramanathan, S. Reddy, M. B. Srivastava. 2006. Participatory Sensing. In the Proceedings of the International Workshop on World-Sensor-Web (WSW'2006), ACM, October 31, 2006, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
  8. ^ 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. S2CID 17760599.
  9. ^ Emiliano De Cristofaro; Soriente, Claudio (2013). "Participatory Privacy: Enabling Privacy in Participatory Sensing". IEEE Network. 27 (1). arXiv:1201.4376.
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