Managing smartphone crowdsensing campaigns through the Organicity smart city platform

TL;DR

This paper introduces a system built on Android to facilitate crowdsensing campaigns in smart cities, integrating smartphone data collection with the Organicity IoT platform for large-scale urban experimentation.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel platform that combines crowdsensing with IoT infrastructure, enabling scalable and manageable smart city data collection and analysis.

Findings

First integrated crowdsensing and IoT platform for smart cities

Enables large-scale urban data collection and experimentation

Simplifies management of crowdsensing campaigns

Abstract

We briefly present the design and architecture of a system that aims to simplify the process of organizing, executing and administering crowdsensing campaigns in a smart city context over smartphones volunteered by citizens. We built our system on top of an Android app substrate on the end-user level, which enables us to utilize smartphone resources. Our system allows researchers and other developers to manage and distribute their "mini" smart city applications, gather data and publish their results through the Organicity smart city platform. We believe this is the first time such a tool is paired with a large scale IoT infrastructure, to enable truly city-scale IoT and smart city experimentation.