Mobile phone sensing as a service: Business model and use cases

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies

Publication Date

11-7-2013

Abstract

With the ubiquity and ever-increasing capabilities of mobile devices and the integration of more and more sensors in them, such devices now have the potential to act not only as personal communication and computing platforms but also as sensing platforms. Mobile phone sensing is a complementary and radically different sensing approach in which smartphones fulfill the sensing role (instead of dedicated wireless sensor networks), by acting as super sensor nodes and gateways. There are several motivations behind the mobile phone sensing approach, such as: Increased sensing coverage area due to phones' mobility, enhanced information processing/validation capabilities, the addition of a social dimension to sensing, and the easy on-demand deployment of new sensors. In this paper, we propose a new business model for mobile phone sensing environments, and elaborate a new identification and charging scheme to support its operation. A number of use cases related to mobile phone sensing are also presented. The proposed business model promotes the idea of Mobile Sensing as a Service, in which a number of mobile sensing terminal operators offer their sensed data as a service to the network operator, which can then disseminate it to interested entities (e.g. specific users, communities, and network nodes). © 2013 IEEE.

ISBN

9781479920198

ISSN

2161-2889

Publisher

IEEE

First Page

116

Last Page

121

Disciplines

Business | Computer Sciences

Keywords

Business modeling, Mobile sensing, Smartphones, Support functions

Scopus ID

84892727139

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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