User Rewarding and Distributed Payment Platforms for Mobile Crowdsensing Systems

Mobile Crowdsensing (MCS) has become in the last years one of the most prominent paradigms for urban sensing. In MCS systems, citizens actively participate in the sensing process by contributing data from their mobile devices. To make e ective a MCS campaign, large participation is fundamental. Users sustain costs to contribute data and they may be reluctant in joining the sensing process. Hence, it is essential to incentivize participants. Several incentive mechanisms have been investigated, such as monetary rewarding. In this context, distributed payment platforms based on custom built blockchains assume a fundamental role. We aim to develop a platform to distribute micro-payments following rewarding schemes. The key idea is to di erentiate between users through several parameters, such as the amount of acquired data and the Quality of Information (QoI), according to the particular campaign and the need of the organizers.