crowdsensing en · NOUN
Etymology
From crowd + sensing.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The sensor measurement of a phenomenon (such as air pollution) by combining readings from numerous devices carried by different individuals.
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.
2015, Xiaowen Gong, Xu Chen, Junshan Zhang, H. Vincent Poor, “Exploiting Social Trust Assisted Reciprocity (STAR) towards Utility-Optimal Socially-aware Crowdsensing”, in arXiv: