Crowdsensing 2.0

Abstract

MOBILE CROWDSENSING (MCS) presents a new sensing paradigm based on the power of user-companioned devices.11,12 It allows “the increasing number of smartphone users to share local knowledge acquired by their sensor-enhanced devices, and the information can be further aggregated in the cloud for largescale sensing.”4 The mobility of large-scale mobile users makes MCS a versatile platform that can often replace static sensing infrastructures. A broad range of applications are thus enabled, including traffic planning, environment monitoring, urban management, and so on.