Survey of Mobile Sensing

Maturity of the mobile Internet and popularity of intelligent terminals equipped with various sensors have spawned a whole new field of research-mobile sensing.Mobile sensing is human-centric,in which human plays an important role.Since the concept of mobile sensing has been proposed,it has got academia and industry wide attention,which is also widely used in the field of transport,medical care and health,and many other fields as well as all aspects of our life.Above all,the paper expounded the connotations of mobile sensing from the perspective of the concept,sensing paradigms,sensing scale and the characteristic,upon this,classified the mobile sensing applications,and then analyzed,summarized and compared existing typical applications.Further more,it described mobile sensing trending to scale and systematic direction and service-oriented"terminal+cloud"mobile sensing architecture,and finally,focused on clarifying the new challenges and the strategies in the environment of large scale.