Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for application and situation-aware community sensing. A method includes processing one or more sensor data requirements for each of multiple sensing applications and one or more user preferences for sensing, determining a sensing strategy for multiple sensors corresponding to the multiple sensing applications based on the one or more sensor data requirements and the one or more user preferences for sensing, wherein said sensing strategy comprises logic for executing a sensing task, and scheduling a sensor duty cycle and a sampling frequency for each of the multiple sensors based on the sensing strategy needed to execute the sensing task.