The proliferation of smartphones throughout the past few years has provided an increasingly ubiquitous platform for intelligent services at the edge of the network. This paper presents an approach to use this intelligence for implementing an architecture that enables remote sensing scenarios in which we rely on intelligence residing in "sensing gateways" that perform the actual sensing but also required aggregation functionality of sensed information. For that, we will introduce a scenario for such remote sensing to motivate our approach. Further, the architecture and current prototype is presented.