Abstract: With the rapid development of big data, artificial intelligence and Internet of things, participatory sensing also called crowdsourcing sensing, social collaborative sensing or perception of swarm intelligence, is becoming increasingly popular and has great market potential and broad application prospect. In view of the fact that the incentive and collaboration mechanism of participatory sensing is a hot topic for scholars at home and abroad. This paper summarizes and reviews the research status and work progress of incentive mechanism in the application of participatory sensing in recent years, including theoretical research, experimental research and practical application system. First, the internal relationship between participatory sensing and incentive and collaboration is pointed out, and the basic working principle of participatory sensing is explained. Then, the advantages and disadvantages of the existing mechanism and its application are compared and analyzed from the perspectives of user, platform, incentive measures and security. Finally, the typical participatory sensing application system is listed, and the challenges and future research directions in this field are pointed out.