PUCAA: 1st international workshop on pervasive urban crowdsensing architecture and applications

Abstract

Recently, as the community and businesses have begun to realize the power of jointly harnessing nomadic mobile sensing and selective infrastructure-based ambient sensing, we are beginning to see the emergence of a class of "urban crowdsensing" platforms that perform pervasive sensing in a more coordinated fashion. Such combined sensing opens up the possibilities for new exciting applications in a variety of urban spaces. Driven by these trends, PUCAA is an annual workshop that seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of urban and crowd-driven sensing. The workshop provides a forum for the researchers to discuss large/innovative crowdsensing architectures, systems and platforms and their experiences on developing crowdsensing applications impacting urban lifestyles in a variety of areas such as personal & public healthcare, retail & commerce, transportation, public safety, crowd management, and utility services.