Question

Main goal of Participatory sensing is?

Answer 1

Participatory sensing. Participatory sensing is the concept of communities (or other groups of people) contributing sensory information to form a body of knowledge.

Answer 2

The major goal of Participatory sensing is to gather, share, and observe the knowledge of the local artifacts.

Participatory sensing in detail:

• Participatory Sensing is a process in which communities and individuals use their smart phones and web services to gather the local knowledge.
• In a very simple terms, when the local information is gathered from the individuals by their own phones and web services, that collected knowledge is known as participatory sensing.
• The data can be gathered with the help of sensing apparatus, that are embedded in the smartphones, for example GPS, microphone, etc.