2.2.7: Participatory Sensing
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Participatory sensing refers to the usage of sensors, usually embedded in personal devices such as smartphones to allow citizens
to feed data of public interest. This could include anything from photos to passive monitoring of movement in the traffic.
Participatory sensing involves higher commitment from citizens in contrary to opportunistic sensing, where user may not be
aware of active applications. The diffusion of mobile phones significantly lowers the barriers of participation and data input
by citizens, with automated geo- tagging and time- stamping: given the right architecture, they could act as sensor nodes
and location- aware data collection instruments. While traditional sensor nodes are centralised, these sensors are under the
owners' control. This would give way to data availability at an unprecedented scale.
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