Measuring the Quality of Street Surfaces in Smart Cities through Smartphone Crowdsensing

Abstract

Smartphones are considered as indispensable parts of humans in modern life, both in terms of mobile computing and communication and also as valuable components in the IoT era. They consist of a plethora of sensors which, when combined and counted in the scale of thousands or even millions, realize crowdsensing and provide solutions and novel applications in many aspects of human and social life. This paper introduces an innovative mobile application that has been deployed and successfully evaluated by users, that targets in measuring the street surface quality of cities, providing useful and up to now unavailable information both for people and also for municipalities all around the globe.