crowdsensing

English

Etymology

From crowd +‎ sensing.

Noun

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:

     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.