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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Crowd-sensing"”.
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Crowd-sensing for smart city applications: towards solving crowd-sensing data challenges by introducing edge and cloud services
Crowd-sensing is the ability of a crowd to utilize sensors embedded in mobile devices to sense the surroundings and then send data to a centralized server or the cloud. With crowd-sensing, a wide range of applications have been empowered, such as smart city, healthcare and marketing, of which the …
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Incentive mechanism design for mobile crowd sensing systems
… fast development and wide deployment of mobile crowd sensing (MCS) systems. Nowadays, applications of MCS systems have covered almost every aspect of people's everyday living and working, such as ambient environment monitoring, healthcare, floor plan reconstruction, smart transportation, indoor …
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Location reliability and gamification mechanisms for mobile crowd sensing
People-centric sensing with smart phones can be used for large scale sensing of the physical world by leveraging the sensors on the phones. This new type of sensing can be a scalable and cost-effective alternative to deploying static wireless sensor networks for dense sensing coverage across large …
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Data Analytics-backed Vehicular Crowd-sensing for GPS-less Tracking in Public Transportation
… deployed and configured for pre-defined sensing tasks whereas the latter exploits opportunistic and participatory sensing paradigms. With that motivation in mind, the contributions of this thesis are three-fold: \textit{(i)} Sensor emulation, \textit{(ii)} Crowd-sensing based GPS-less …
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Shell Game: Randomized representative based election to defend against 51% attacks in Crowd sensing frameworks
… of opportunities and applications in mobile crowd sensing paradigm, such as real-time road traffic monitoring, noise pollution, health monitoring etc. In this paradigm, people become the centerpiece of the sensing process where users can gather data whenever and wherever, using the mobile …
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A Unified And Green Platform For Smartphone Sensing
… attached to) smartphones can enable attractive sensing applications in different domains, including environmental monitoring, social networking, healthcare, transportation, etc. Most existing smartphone sensing systems are application-specific. How to leverage smartphones' sensing capability to …
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Sensing and Actuation as a Service, a device-centric paradigm for the IoT: analysis, design and case studies
… a partire da una piattaforma per il "mobile crowd-sensing" di tipo opportunistico e cooperativo fino ad arrivare ad un modello per Smart City "definite dal software", laddove la riconfigurazione dinamica del "cablaggio" tra oggetti in ultima istanza abilita anelli di controllo retroazionato …
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Secure Computing with Privacy Preservation for Cyber-Physical Systems
… as "next generation of engineered systems" are sensing and communication systems that offer tight integration of computation and networking capabilities to monitor and control entities in the physical world. The advent of the cloud and service computing models has contributed significantly to …
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Evaluation of Trust in the Internet Of Things: Models, Mechanisms And Applications
… in variety of IoT scenarios such as Mobile Crowd-Sensing (MCS), Car Sharing service, Data Sharing and Exchange platform in Smart Cities and in Vehicular Networks; and for empowering Blockchain-based systems. The feasibility and effectiveness of the REK model and associated evaluation …
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Preserving Accuracy and Privacy in Participatory Sensing Systems
Participatory Sensing (PS) is an approach that offers individuals and interest groups the opportunity to contribute to an application using their handheld sensor devices such as smartphones and tablets. These sensor devices are able to sense, collect available data and use cellular and Internet …