36 / 61
35
Department newsroom
Workshop on Mobile Crowdsourcing for Qatar Smart City: Techniques,
Applications and Challenges
On 9th September, Dr. AbdelKarim Erradi held a workshop titled “Mobile Crowdsourcing for Qatar Smart City: Techniques,
Applications and Challenges“. The ubiquity of mobile devices has elicited the emergence of mobile crowdsourcing where people
create new on-demand services through sharing or exchanging resources. Mobile crowdsourcing leverages smartphones and IoT
devices with sensing capabilities to collect data from the world around us and share the data across the Internet where it can be
processed and utilized for various purposes. This enables the development and deployment of innovative services such as
supporting the mobility of the citizens in urban environment, improving traffic safety, efficient traffic routing, and up-to-date view of
city’s transportation system. Integrating crowdsourcing, IoT and other emerging technologies like big data analytics can help in
building smarter infrastructure and provide better public services to achieve the vision of smarter city and smarter living.
The workshop provided the opportunity to gather researchers and practitioners to discuss the aspect of mobile crowdsourcing in
Qatar smart city and how this paradigm can contribute in smarter and more efficient transportation ecosystem. Additionally, key
contributions of NPRP 9-224-1-049 project “Spatio-Temporal Composition of Sensor Cloud Services” were discussed.