Participatory sensing is the concept of communities (or other groups of people) contributing sensory information to form a body of knowledge.wilsoncenter.org
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, urban mobility, 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 or hierarchical trust structures.
Additional challenges include, but are not limited to, effective incentives for participation,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. security,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. reputation and privacy.
See also Crowdsensing Crowdsourcing Crowdmapping Public participation
References
External links Participatory sensing for community building PEPSI: Privacy-Enhanced Participatory Sensing Infrastructure