Participatory sensing networked society institute university of. The data captured by participants is typically submitted to an intermediary the service provider who will build a service based upon this data. A citizenpowered approach to illuminating the patterns that shape our world, pdf file published by the woodrow wilson international center for scholars in 2009. Participatory sensing is a form of crowdsourcing whereby individuals and communities submit scalar andor multimedia data from mobile. Participatory sensing is one of a number of related movements going under names including self quantification, mobile health. The definition of participatory sensing emphasizes explicit user participation, crowdsourcing is defined as.
Abstract this demonstration presents apollo, a new sensor information processing tool for uncovering likely facts in noisy participatory sensing data. Each smartphone device has a special application for data relaying. On role assignment for participatory sensing system. Peir, the personal environmental impact report, as a. In this research, we explore the viability of using participatory sensing as a means to enhance a sense of community. Participatory sensing assesses the spatial and temporal variability of environmental indicators and is used to quantify this interpersonal variability. This paper develops mathematical foundations and architectural components for providing privacy guarantees on stream data in grassroots participatory sensing applications, where groups of participants use privatelyowned sensors to collectively measure aggregate phenomena of mutual interest.
On role assignment for participatory sensing system by anubhuti garg thesis submitted to the faculty of graduate and postdoctoral studies in partial ful llment of the requirements for the mcs degree in computer science school of electrical engineering and computer science faculty of engineering university of ottawa c anubhuti garg, ottawa. Transferring the participatory sensing information to a specific study population is a basic requirement for epidemiological studies in the near future. Participatory sensing, where users proactively document and share their observations, has received. Enabling interactive local governance through citizen engagement 1. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. The efficiency and reliability of a participatory sensing system. Participation and reporting in participatory sensing. Utilization of humans behavior behavior taking photos moving daily activities. Abstractparticipatory sensing is a revolutionary paradigm in which volunteers collect and share information from their local environment using mobile phones. Pushing participatory sensing further to the edge ieee. Participatory sensing urban sensing, which is the process that enables individuals to collect, analyze and share local knowledge with their own mobile devices, emerges as required under these well conditions.
The prime goal of participatory sensing has been to enhance and evolve existing methodologies by improving quantity, quality and credibility of community gathered data 3. Participatory sensing burke 2006 is an emerging computing paradigm that tasks everyday mobile devices to form participatory sensor networks. Participatory sensing ps is the process through which individuals and communities use the capabilities of mobile devices and cloud services to collect, analyze, and contribute sensory information burke et al. Recently, participatory sensing has attracted considerable attention of research. Pdf the research on the efforts of combining human and machine intelligence has a long history. Participatory sensing is the process in which individuals or communities collect and analyze systematic data using mobile phones and cloud services. This paper introduces the concept of participatory sensing, which tasks everyday mobile devices, such as cellular phones, to form interactive, participatory sensor networks that enable public and professional users to gather, analyze and share local knowledge. Participation and reporting in participatory sensing man hon cheung, fen hou, and jianwei huang abstractin participatory sensing ps, users use smartphones to collect information related to a certain phenomenon of interest, and report their sensed data to the service provider through cellular or wifi networks.
Recently, participatory sensing has attracted considerable attention of. Participatory sensing lies at the intersection of two auspicious research directions, networked sensing and group intelligence. Abstract the bus arrival time is primary information to most city transport travelers. Compared with wsns, participatory sensing offers a. Adaptive reward allocation for participatory sensing hindawi.
In this document, we introduce the concept of participatory sensing, explore five hypothetical situations in which it might have realworld influence, and suggest short and longterm measures that can promote our vision. Local government such as the city of melbourne is accountable and responsible for establishment, execution and oversight of strategic objectives and resource management in. A typical participatory sensing application operates in a centralized fashion, i. Participatory sensing plays an important role in the internet of things iot. A privacypreserving reputation system for participatory sensing. The design of a successful participatory sensing application is met with two challenges 1 user privacy and 2 data trustworthiness. A growth in mobile devices, such as the smartphones, which has rich and ubiquitous sensors, has made participatory sensing viable in.
Sensorized city social phenomena natural phenomena realtime, realworld dynamic. In this article, we report on our experiences with a lowcost open source hardware and software platform, which we specifically developed for this task. When participatory sensing meets participatory social media bin guo1, chao chen2,3, daqing zhang3, zhiwen yu1, alvin chin4 1 school of computer science, northwestern polytechnical university, p. Participatory air quality sensing does not eliminate the need for external sensor networks, no matter static or mobile. From participatory sensing to mobile crowd sensing.
In this post im introducing relationships among citizens, sensors and data as preliminary stages towards participatory sensing projects in the context of smartcities. Fundamental design for a beacon device based unconscious. In them, we have developed a form of citizen participation in environmental monitoring and action which is bottomup, participatory and empowering to the community. For example, the opensense project has deployed a rich set of sensors on public transports to measure air quality, like co, pm10, o 3. Social tapestries views participatory sensing as the principal supporting technology to enable grassroots groups and communities to track and act on information about their local environment. The back end data center is a server where the data analysis and. A web gis framework for participatory sensing service. Participatory sensing is the concept of communities contributing sensory information to form a. This study presents a methodological approach for crop height assessment based on ps. Implementation of participatory sensing approach in mobile. Smart route planning using open data and participatory sensing.
The proposed system assumes to be consisting of various numbers of beacon devices and smartphone devices. The convergence of technology and analytical innovation with a citizenry that is increasingly comfortable using mobile phones and online social networking sets the stage for this technology to. Given that participatory sensing systems rely completely on the users willingness to submit uptodate and accurate information, it is paramount to effectively incentivize users active and reliable participation. Paulos, 2007 or proposing urban plans for redeveloping areas burke, 2006. Urban sensing or personal and participatory sensing. Community organizers defined the content of the participatory sensing campaign. In this paper we provide concrete proof that participatory techniques, when implemented properly, can achieve the same accuracy as.
A survey on privacy in mobile participatory sensing. Participatory sensing ps is a new practice w hich harnesses these tools to collect and analyze data for use in social science, environmental and health discovery. Participatory sensing applications have two major components. Participatory sensing is a process that tasks mobile devices such as cellular phones to form interactive participatory sensor networks that enable public and professional users to gather, analyze and share local knowledge 1. Participatory sensing combines the ubiquity of mobile phones with the sensing capabilities of wireless sensor networks. Participatory sensing, which is the main topic of this article, is a subset of mobile crowdsourcing that emphasizes the active and intentional.
Evaluating hotspots for stormwater harvesting through participatory sensing. Urban participatory citizen sensing goes beyond the conditions usually set for citizen science, and instead enters the realm of empowerment and citizenship in the city. Pushing participatory sensing further to the edge abstract. Participatory sensing refers to any mechanism by which individuals in the general. With the advent of participatory sensing sensors integrated with consumer electronics. Accepted by ieee communications magazine 1 mobile crowd sensing and computing.
Using the concept of ps, soundrecording and noisemonitoring mobile applications and online web. This paper introduces the concept of participatory sensing, which tasks everyday mobile devices, such as cellular phones, to form interactive, participatory sensor networks that enable public and. Crowdsensing, sometimes referred to as mobile crowdsensing, is a technique where a large group of individuals having mobile devices capable of sensing and computing such as smartphones, tablet computers, wearables collectively share data and extract information to measure, map, analyze, estimate or infer predict any processes of common interest. Transferring the participatory sensing information to a speci. As an evolution of participatory sensing, mcs has two unique features. Participatory sensing, instead, focuses on motivated groups willing to engage themselves as digital pressure groups, e. A new architecture for participatory sensing can enhance and systematize existing methodology by increasing the quantity, quality and credibility of communitygathered data. Participatory sensing ps as a dimension of citizen science may provide some measure of data quality assurance through the introduction of emerging technologies that assist in sensing, aggregation and validation of data, as well as recruitment and evaluation of participants. Participatory sensing is an approach to data collection and interpretation in which individuals, acting alone or in groups, use their personal mobile devices and web services to systematically explore interesting aspects of their worlds ranging from health to culture. Aventis us llc, boston, usa abstract participatory sensing plays an important role in internet of things iot applications to collect large scale data. Pdf from participatory sensing to mobile crowd sensing. One application of participatory sensing is as a tool for health. To accomplish this, we are developing and deploying a suite of participatory sensing applications, where users explicitly report on the state of their environment, such as the location of the bus.
On the one hand, participatory sensing requires the active involvement of individuals to contribute data related to a phenomenon that is too large to be addressed by a single person e. The research on the efforts of combining human and machine intelligence has a long history. In this article, we survey existing literature on incentive mechanisms for participatory sensing systems. Participatory sensing is the process whereby individuals and communities use ever more capable mobile phones and cloud services to collect and analyze systematic data for use in discovery. Participatory sensing shapes phones into ubiquitous, familiar tools for quantifying personal patterns and habits. This post is the second of 4 posts about participatory sensing projects and research that we are publishing weekly on fridays. Enabling interactive local governance through citizen engagement key findings participatory sensing the active role of the user is critical for the success of ps, requiring effective engagement, but also mitigation of disincentives, such as privacy concerns. In participatory sensing, individuals are explicitly and actively involved in the sensing process, and choose to perform some critical operations e. Evaluating hotspots for stormwater harvesting through. Realworld deployments of participatory sensing applications. Participatory sensing can be used to retrieve information about the environment, weather, urban mobility, congestion as well as any other sensory information that collectively forms knowledge. To efficiently develop participatory sensing services, some serverside technologies have been proposed.
Motivating contribution in a participatory sensing system. Participatory sensing is a form of data collection that engages individuals in collecting data about themselves and their communities using digital devices. Participatory sensing for community building chi 11. Introduction participatory sensing refers to the vision of distributed data collection and analysis at the personal, urban, and global scale, in which participants make key decisions about what, where, and when to sense 1. How long to wait predicting bus arrival time with mobile. However, transferring the collected data to the cloud can lead to draining device battery power and cause network bandwidth bottlenecks, especially for large multimedia files. Peir, the personal environmental impact report, as a platform. Participatory sensing rapid deployment slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. For example, the cogps approach is a key enabling technology in microsoft research project cleo, a participatory environmental sensing system that we are showcasing at the 2012 agu fall meeting this week. Participatory sensing ps is a concept which enables laymen to easily gather geodata with standard lowcost mobile devices, offering new and efficient opportunities for agricultural monitoring. The pdf file you selected should load here if your web browser has a pdf reader plugin installed for example, a recent version of adobe acrobat reader if you would like more information about how to print, save, and work with pdfs, highwire press provides a helpful frequently asked questions about pdfs. Addressing complex issues such as climate change or the e ects of the built environment on obesity or wellness requires more than pro.
Ijerph free fulltext extending participatory sensing to. Participatory sensing an overview sciencedirect topics. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. Participatory sensing, location data, environmental impact and exposure, mobile system 1. We argue that, in the design of participatory sensing tools and applications, the. From participatory sensing to mobile crowd sensing abstract. Participatory sensing for community data campaigns.
In this paper we provide concrete proof that participatory techniques, when implemented properly, can achieve the same accuracy as standard mapping techniques. With the development of mobile sensing and mobile internet techniques, a new sensing paradigm called mobile crowd sensing mcs, which leverages the power of citizens for largescale sensing. Aug 26, 2014 participatory sensing rapid deployment slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. In opportunistic sensing, individuals are passively involved, for example.
Phones become platforms for thousands to document a neighborhood. The goal of this document is to better understand the eld and possible options. Dec 04, 2012 for example, the cogps approach is a key enabling technology in microsoft research project cleo, a participatory environmental sensing system that we are showcasing at the 2012 agu fall meeting this week. Another important component of this demo is a novel concept in participatory sensing that a. The general vision is that designing, deploying and operating a sensor network may not be necessary, when we want to learn about the. There are several different usage models of participatory sensing. Incorporating participatory sensing to an emergency communication should be done with utter caution. Motivating contribution in a participatory sensing system via. Futhermore, participatory sensing covers a wide range of user involvement lane et al.
Privacyaware incentivisation for participatory sensing. With the advent of participatory sensing sensors integrated with consumer electronics such as cell phones and carried by people, exciting new opportunities arise. Price of sensor data in participatory sensing yoshito tobe aoyama gakuin university japan. A transport trip quality measurement system tqms has. An indepth debate over what is assumed and expected from. Participatory sensing for emergency communication via manet. Jie liu, principal researcher and research manager, microsoft research, sensing and energy research group. Physical, chemical, and biological factors shaping phytoplankton community structure in king harbor, redondo beach, california. By implementing adaptive data collection protocols based on local or systemwide statistics, participatory sensing would facilitate. Participatory sensing, public spaces, urban probes introduction as sensors become less expensive and passing through a spacemore widely available, nonexperts are empowered to act as scientists and environmental researchers. Participatory sensing enables a personcentric collection of environmental measurement data with, in principle, high granularity in space and time.
This paper introduces the concept of participatory sensing, which tasks. This participatory sensing initiative under the form of a geoobserver network is setup through a collaboration between mountains of the moon university mmu, uganda, the vrije universiteit brussel vub, the royal museum for central africa rmca and the ku leuven in belgium. Using the concept of ps, soundrecording and noisemonitoring mobile applications and online web survey. Towards a sustainable incentive mechanism for participatory sensing xiaoshan sun. In recent years, with the development of sharing economy and mobile sensing, many smartphonebased participatory sensing systems have been valued and applied 1, such as data perception 2. From participatory sensing to mobile crowd sensing ieee. Implementation of participatory sensing approach 3 the goal of this particular sub research was verifying of the possibility to collect the information about road surface and its damages using vehicles equipped with mi. This paper proposes a beacon device based unconscious participatory sensing system where beacon devices are installed at a measurement location, and trigger measurement. Participatory sensing for governmentcentric applications. The sensing tasks on the phones can be triggered manually, automatically, or based on the current context. Participatory sensing proceedings of the 8th international.
It tasks everyday mobile devices to form interactive, participatory sensor networks that enable public and professional users to gather, analyze and share local knowledge. In this technical report we describe a community data campaign that made use of smartphone based participatory sensing for environmental needs assessment. Extending participatory sensing to personal exposure using. Although they provide a good platform for participatory sensing, they are not optimized for spatial data management and processing. Figure 1 shows the system architecture for a participatory sensing application that exploits sensor data collected during crosscountry flights by paraglider pilots to study thermal effects in the atmosphere. Participatory sensing is a paradigm through which mobile device users or participants collect and share data about their environments. Participatory sensing uses both local devices for data collection and cloudbased servers for processing. University of science and technology of china, hefei, china sano. Collection, production and use of data become practices of engagement and action through diy sensing technologies for.
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