A Cloud-Based Infrastructure for Crowdsourcing Data from Mobile Devices

Abstract

In the vast galaxy of crowdsourcing activities, crowd-sensing consists in using users' cellphones for collecting large sets of data. In this chapter, we present the APISENSE distributed crowd-sensing platform. In particular, APISENSE provides a participative environment to easily deploy sensing experiments in the wild. Beyond the scientific contributions of this platform, the technical originality of APISENSE lies in its Cloud orientation, which is built on top of the soCloud distributed multicloud platform, and the remote deployment of scripts within the mobile devices of the participants. We validate this solution by reporting on various crowd-sensing experiments we deployed using Android smartphones and comparing our solution to existing crowd-sensing platforms.