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Mapping Urban Environmental Noise Using Smartphones
Noise mapping is an effective method of visualizing and accessing noise pollution. In this paper, a noise-mapping method based on smartphones to effectively and easily measure environmental noise is proposed.
Jinbo Zuo +3 more
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A trajectory-based recruitment strategy of social sensors for participatory sensing [PDF]
Participatory sensing, a promising sensing paradigm, enables people to collect and share sensor data on phenomena of interest using mobile devices across many applications, such as smart transportation and air quality monitoring.
Hao, F, Jiao, M, Min, Geyong, Yang, LT
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Allocating Heterogeneous Tasks in Participatory Sensing with Diverse Participant-Side Factors
This paper proposes a novel task allocation framework, PSTasker, for participatory sensing (PS), which aims to maximize the overall system utility on PS platform by coordinating the allocation of multiple tasks. While existing studies mainly optimize the
Jiangtao Wang +5 more
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Fog Architectures and Sensor Location Certification in Distributed Event-Based Systems
Since smart cities aim at becoming self-monitoring and self-response systems, their deployment relies on close resource monitoring through large-scale urban sensing.
Fátima Castro-Jul +4 more
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Measurements of a Real-time Transit Feed Service Architecture for Mobile Participatory Sensing [PDF]
—We spend a substantial part of our time with traveling, in crowded cities usually taking public transportation. It is important, making travel planning easier, to have accurate information about vehicle arrival times at the stops. Most of the public
Farkas, Károly +2 more
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With the help of community participants, smartphones can become useful wireless sensor network (WSN) components, form a self-governing structural health monitoring (SHM) system, and merge structural mechanics with participatory sensing and server ...
E. Ozer, M. Feng
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Bumbometer digital crowd game: collaboration through competition in entertainment events
The use of mobile devices, especially smartphones, is widespread across all social strata and age groups, helping to ensure faster access from anywhere, data collection, and more regular and frequent control to aid urban, environmental, and social ...
Gustavo Martins +7 more
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Towards privacy-sensitive participatory sensing [PDF]
The ubiquity of mobile devices has brought forth the concept of participatory sensing, whereby ordinary citizens can now contribute and share information from the urban environment. However, such applications introduce a key research challenge: preserving the location privacy of the individuals contributing data.
Kuan Lun Huang, Salil S. Kanhere, Wen Hu
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A Study on Mobile Crowd Sensing Systems for Healthcare Scenarios
Due to the growing capabilities of mobile phones and devices, mobile crowd sensing (MCS) is rapidly gaining popularity among researchers in different fields, given its ability to collect data at scale and low cost.
Enshi Zhang +3 more
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Differentially Private Mobile Crowd Sensing Considering Sensing Errors
An increasingly popular class of software known as participatory sensing, or mobile crowdsensing, is a means of collecting people’s surrounding information via mobile sensing devices. To avoid potential undesired side effects of this data analysis method,
Yuichi Sei, Akihiko Ohsuga
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