crowdsensing

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

crowd +‎ sensing

Noun[edit]

crowdsensing (uncountable)

  1. The sensor measurement of a phenomenon (such as air pollution) by combining readings from numerous devices carried by different individuals.
    • 2015, Xiaowen Gong, Xu Chen, Junshan Zhang, H. Vincent Poor, “Exploiting Social Trust Assisted Reciprocity (STAR) towards Utility-Optimal Socially-aware Crowdsensing”, in arXiv[1]:
      In this study, a socially-aware crowdsensing system is advocated, in which a cloud-based platform incentivizes mobile users to participate in sensing tasks by leveraging social trust among users, upon receiving sensing requests.