A distributed approach for increasing coverage in crowdsensing applications with focus on urban exploration and water infrastructure

The first step towards a sustainable society is about raising environmental awareness. Supported by technological advancements and the ubiquity of mobile devices, mobile crowdsensing benefits from gamification. Both crowdsensing and gamification contribute to increasing the level of awareness and the participation of citizens in the community. In this paper, the proposed solution aims to increase the coverage in mobile crowdsensing for collaborative infrastructure monitoring by leveraging the power of gamification and urban exploration, while the distributed approach is evaluated in terms of the global outcomes and performance in a simulated environment. The proposed dynamic mapping system integrates nearby search and dynamic feature generation for achieving an optimal distribution of incentives in a real-life exploration game.