Crowdsourcing of Internet of Things: Applications, Trends in technology and the Future

Crowdsourcing of IoT devices is giving a new dimension to the Internet of things(IoT) applications. The crowd equipped with geolocated mobile devices enhances mobile crowd-sourcing which in turn contributes to new and unexplored use cases. This paper proposes a generalized architecture for the crowd-IoT system, enlightens a comprehensive survey of different applications of crowd-IoT, points out the importance of embedded intelligence in crowd-IoT systems, and suggests appropriate Artificial Intelligence(AI) tools and supporting frameworks for next-generation IoT applications. As crowd-IoT is an emerging research area, this paper aims to provide awareness and motivation to the innovations towards Crowdsourcing of IoT devices.