Mobile phone sensing systems: A survey

WZ Khan, Y Xiang, MY Aalsalem… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile phone sensing is an emerging area of interest for researchers as smart phones are
becoming the core communication device in people's everyday lives. Sensor enabled …

Participant privacy in mobile crowd sensing task management: A survey of methods and challenges

L Pournajaf, DA Garcia-Ulloa, L Xiong… - ACM Sigmod Record, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Mobile crowd sensing enables a broad range of novel applications by leveraging mobile
devices and smartphone users worldwide. While this paradigm is immensely useful, it …

Smartroad: Smartphone-based crowd sensing for traffic regulator detection and identification

S Hu, L Su, H Liu, H Wang, TF Abdelzaher - ACM Transactions on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
In this article we present SmartRoad, a crowd-sourced road sensing system that detects and
identifies traffic regulators, traffic lights, and stop signs, in particular. As an alternative to …

City scanner: Building and scheduling a mobile sensing platform for smart city services

A Anjomshoaa, F Duarte, D Rennings… - IEEE Internet of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A large number of vehicles routinely navigate through city streets; with on-board sensors,
they can be transformed into a dynamic network that monitors the urban environment …

FEMO: A platform for free-weight exercise monitoring with RFIDs

H Ding, L Shangguan, Z Yang, J Han, Z Zhou… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Regular free-weight exercise helps to strengthen the body's natural movements and
stabilize muscles that are important to strength, balance, and posture of human beings. Prior …

Participatory noise mapping works! An evaluation of participatory sensing as an alternative to standard techniques for environmental monitoring

E D'Hondt, M Stevens, A Jacobs - Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2013 - Elsevier
Participatory sensing enables a person-centric collection of environmental measurement
data with, in principle, high granularity in space and time. In this paper we provide concrete …

Truth discovery on crowd sensing of correlated entities

C Meng, W Jiang, Y Li, J Gao, L Su, H Ding… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
With the popular usage of mobile devices and smartphones, crowd sensing becomes
pervasive in real life when human acts as sensors to report their observations about entities …

ilocus: Incentivizing vehicle mobility to optimize sensing distribution in crowd sensing

S Xu, X Chen, X Pi, C Joe-Wong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vehicular crowd sensing systems are designed to achieve large spatio-temporal sensing
coverage with low-cost in deployment and maintenance. For example, taxi platforms can be …

TrPF: A trajectory privacy-preserving framework for participatory sensing

S Gao, J Ma, W Shi, G Zhan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ubiquity of the various cheap embedded sensors on mobile devices, for example
cameras, microphones, accelerometers, and so on, is enabling the emergence of …

A picture of Instagram is worth more than a thousand words: Workload characterization and application

TH Silva, POSV De Melo, JM Almeida… - … Computing in Sensor …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Participatory sensing systems (PSSs) have the potential to become fundamental tools to
support the study, in large scale, of urban social behavior and city dynamics. To that end …