How can sensor data from smartphones fuel major advances? A clever idea for crowdfunding cell phone data offers a glimpse at how a huge data source in the form of cell phone sensor data becomes useful for insight into health care, transportation, urban planning and social sciences.
Here is an article explaining how CrowdSignals, a new initiative to collect, label and pay for mobile sensor data, seeks to overcome that shortfall. The organization’s approach relies less on innovation in technology than on economics and creating a marketplace for sensor data.
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