An Energy-aware End-to-End Crowdsensing Platform: Sensarena

Abstract

International audienceNowadays, smart-devices come with a rich set of built-in sensors besides being full-fledged processing and communicating handsets. This empowers the crowd to collect and share sensed data about various city-related phenomena, a new paradigm denoted as Crowdsensing. In this context, we introduce Sensarena; an end-to-end general-use crowdsensing platform which consists of three main elements: two different android- based applications and a central server. The first mobile application is destined to the participants to conduct sensing campaigns and the second is for requestors to submit their sensing requests. Besides, the server side is designed to host energy-aware sensing tasks assignment mechanisms and storage of different types of data. The developed platform has been exhaustively tested for different scenarios and proved a competitive performance while responding to both participants and requestors requirements