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crowdsensing

crowdsensing noun: the sensor measurement of a phenomenon (such as air pollution) by combining readings from numerous devices carried by different individuals.

Noun

crowdsensing (uncountable)

  1. 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

Origin of crowdsensing

From crowd + sensing.

Questions about crowdsensing

What does crowdsensing mean?
Crowdsensing means the sensor measurement of a phenomenon (such as air pollution) by combining readings from numerous devices carried by different individuals.
What part of speech is crowdsensing?
Crowdsensing is a noun.

Words near crowdsensing in the dictionary

  1. crowds sail
  2. crowds together
  3. crowds up
  4. crowdsale
  5. crowdsales
  6. crowdsensing
  7. crowdsource
  8. crowdsourced
  9. crowdsourcer
  10. crowdsourcers
  11. crowdsources

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