CROWDSOURCING WITH

SMARTPHONES

Presented by:

ASMAR NAREJO Sec: A (15122108)

FAYYAZ ALI Sec: B (--------)

ISHRAT FATIMA Sec: A (--------)

 CONTENTS
 Introduction
 What is crowd sourcing?
 Benefits of crowd sourcing
 Pitfalls of crowd sourcing
 Applications of crowd sourcing
 Crowdsourcing with Smart phones
 Issues and characteristics
 Applications of crowd sourcing with Smart phones
 Smart trace
 Crowd cast
 Smartp2p
 Smart lab
 Future work
 Conclusion
 INTRODUCTION

 Process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by

soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and
especially from an online community.

 Distributed problem-solving model.

 Crowd- sourcing in smart phones.

 Extending existing web based crowd sourcing application to a

larger contributing client.
WHAT IS CROWDSOURCING?

 Crowdsourcing is an online, distributed problem solving

and production model.

 Users also known as the crowd--typically form into online

communities based on the Web site, and the crowd submits
solutions to the site or produce its contents.

 The crowd can also sort through the solutions, finding the
best ones.

 These best solutions are then owned by the entity that

broadcast the problem in the first place the crowdsourcer.
 BENEFITS

 Information can be collected quickly and efficiently.

 Crowdsourcing benefits firms by potentially contributing

significantly to innovation with careful analysis.

 Easy access to a global workforce with a wide range of

knowledge .

 To exploit trajectory related information's.

 PITFALLS
 Research shows that crowdsourcing can favor
popular opinion which in turn favors homogeneity .

 Crowdsourcing can be expensive.

 Crowdsourcing can be unreliable.

 Crowdsourcing requires no or little expertise from

participants.

 No supervision of participants.
 APPLICATIONS
 Testing & Refining a Product
 Netflix
 Sella Band
 CAPTCHA & RECAPTCHA
 Knowledge Management
 Wikipedia
 Customer Service
 My Starbucks ideas
 Polling and Voting
 Smart phones
 Airlines
 Traffic System
CROWD SOURCING WITH SMART PHONES
 ISSUES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF
CROWDSOURCING WITH SMARTPHONES

 Smartphones feature different Internet connection modalities

that provide intermittent connectivity .

 Peer-to-peer connection capabilities that provide connectivity

to nodes in spatial proximity.

 Centralized or decentralized.

 Participatory or Opportunistic.

 Localization.
 APPLICATIONS OF CROWDSOURCING WITH
SMARTPHONES

 Smarttrace

 Crowdcast

 Smartp2p
 SMARTTRACE

 Smart Trace

 GUI enables the following functions:

i) Record and plot .

ii) Configure

iii) Connect to a SmartTrace+ server

iv) Switch between online and offline mode

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 CROWDCAST
 Mobile devices is to continuously provide k geographically
nearest neighbors in real-time.

 Solves the Continuous All k-Nearest Neighbor (CAkNN)

problem efficiently.

 Extended neighborhood “sensing” capability for mobile users

enables several novel applications.
CROWDCAST: SCREENSHOTS FROM AN EXAMPLE APPLICATION.
SMARTP2P
 SmartP2P offers high performance search and data shar- ing
over a crowd of mobile users participating in a smartphone
social network.
 Crowd to optimize the search process.
 SmartP2P can be used as a recommender system where the
mobile social crowd .
 (a) user enters a keyword of interest to issue a query
 (b) The answer is returned back
 (c) Decision Making process
 (d) Fetches the selected optimized tree from a server
 (e) User searches the peer-to-peer network
 (f) Obtains a list of the results of interest.
THE FRAMEWORK WORKFLOW AND SCREENSHOTS OF THE SMARTP2P
CLIENT SIDE GUI IN ANDROID
SMART LAB
 Smart- Lab12 test bed in order to implement and evaluate

smart- phone applications at a massive scale.

 Smart Lab provides an open, permanent testbed for development

and testing ofsmartphone applications via an intuitive web-based
interface.

 Registered users can upload and install Android executables

(APKs) on a number of Android smartphones, capture their
output, reboot the devices, issue commands and many other
exciting features.
FUTURE WORK

 Crowd sourcing with smart phones will evolve rapidly in the

future.

 Collection of specialized location-related data.

 Energy consumption, privacy preservation and application

performance.

 Extending the location-awareness.

CONCLUSION
 Process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by
soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and
especially from an online community.

 Smartphone networks comprise a new computation system that

involves the joint efforts of both computers and humans.

 The unique data generated by the smartphone sensors and

the crowd’s constant movement.

 The focus of future efforts in this area lies in the collection of

specialized location-related data.
Thank you…..

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