Wirelessly powered urban crowd sensing over wearables: Trading energy for data

In this article, we put forward the paradigm of mobile crowd sensing based on ubiquitous wearable devices carried by human users. The key challenge for mass user involvement in prospective urban crowd sensing applications, such as monitoring of large-scale phenomena (e.g., traffic congestion and air pollution levels), is the appropriate sources of motivation. We thus advocate for the use of wireless power transfer provided in exchange for sensed data to incentivize the owners of wearables to participate in collaborative data collection. Based on this construction, we develop a novel concept of wirelessly powered crowd sensing and offer the corresponding network architecture considerations together with a systematic review of wireless charging techniques to support implementation. Further, we contribute a detailed system-level feasibility study that reports on the achievable performance levels for the envisioned setup. Finally, the underlying energy- data trading mechanisms are discussed, and the work concludes with outlining open research opportunities. © 2002-2012 IEEE.

Authors
Galinina O. 1, 4 , Mikhaylov K.2 , Huang K.3 , Andreev S. 1 , Koucheryavy Y. 1
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Number of issue
2
Language
English
Pages
140-149
Status
Published
Volume
25
Year
2018
Organizations
  • 1 Tampere University of Technology, Finland
  • 2 University of Oulu, Finland
  • 3 University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • 4 Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russian Federation
Keywords
Energy transfer; Network architecture; Traffic congestion; Achievable performance; Collaborative data collection; Feasibility studies; Research opportunities; Systematic Review; Trading mechanism; Wireless charging; Wireless power transfer; Wearable technology
Date of creation
19.10.2018
Date of change
19.10.2018
Short link
https://repository.rudn.ru/en/records/article/record/6741/
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