The Role of Crowdsourcing in the Emerging Internet-Of-Things

Ramine Tinati, Aastha Madaan, Wendy Hall
2017 Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion - WWW '17 Companion  
In this position paper we wish to propose and discuss several open research questions associated with the IoT. In particular, we wish to consider how crowdsourcing can be used as a scalable, reliable, and sustainable approach to support various computationally difficult and ambiguous tasks recognised in IoT research. We illustrate our work by examining a number of use cases related to healthcare and smart cities, and finally consider the future development of the IoT ecosystem with respect to
more » ... e socio-technical philosophy and implementation of the Web Observatory.
doi:10.1145/3041021.3051693 dblp:conf/www/TinatiMH17 fatcat:lzliuykhejf2lm36gxdwbwjrme