@article{oai:ipsj.ixsq.nii.ac.jp:00113147, author = {Takamasa, Higuchi and Hirozumi, Yamaguchi and Teruo, Higashino and Takamasa, Higuchi and Hirozumi, Yamaguchi and Teruo, Higashino}, issue = {2}, journal = {情報処理学会論文誌}, month = {Feb}, note = {Now that billions of people carry sensor-enabled mobile devices (e.g., smartphones), employing powerful capability of such commercial mobile products has become a promising approach for large-scale environmental and human-behavioral sensing. Such a new paradigm of scalable context monitoring is known as opportunistic sensing, and has been successfully applied to a broad range of applications. In this paper, we briefly introduce basic architecture and building blocks on which these emerging systems are based, and then provide a survey of recent progress in the opportunistic sensing technology. ------------------------------ This is a preprint of an article intended for publication Journal of Information Processing(JIP). This preprint should not be cited. This article should be cited as: Journal of Information Processing Vol.23(2015) No.2 (online) ------------------------------, Now that billions of people carry sensor-enabled mobile devices (e.g., smartphones), employing powerful capability of such commercial mobile products has become a promising approach for large-scale environmental and human-behavioral sensing. Such a new paradigm of scalable context monitoring is known as opportunistic sensing, and has been successfully applied to a broad range of applications. In this paper, we briefly introduce basic architecture and building blocks on which these emerging systems are based, and then provide a survey of recent progress in the opportunistic sensing technology. ------------------------------ This is a preprint of an article intended for publication Journal of Information Processing(JIP). This preprint should not be cited. This article should be cited as: Journal of Information Processing Vol.23(2015) No.2 (online) ------------------------------}, title = {Mobile Devices as an Infrastructure: A Survey of Opportunistic Sensing Technology}, volume = {56}, year = {2015} }