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IoT for Crowd Sensing and Crowd Sourcing

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This chapter starts with the origin of the concept of crowdsourcing followed by the understanding of the concept of crowd sensing with the help of various examples of well-known International brands. The concept of IOT is explained in brief along with sensors and actuators etc. Due to existence of IOT, transformation of crowdsourcing into crowd sensing has evolved. Applications of crowd sensing in India and western countries are used as examples for explaining the concepts thoroughly. At the end the chapter includes the initiatives that the industry has taken up for adopting emerging technology for a better future and the challenges that the world is facing in deployment of the emerging technologies in the industry.

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Sharma, V. (2020). IoT for Crowd Sensing and Crowd Sourcing. In: Alam, M., Shakil, K., Khan, S. (eds) Internet of Things (IoT). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37468-6_15

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