Integrated camera and sensor networks: Algorithms, design, and applications

Recent technological advances in hardware miniaturization of sensors, low-power microprocessor design, and wireless ad hoc networking have enabled the deployment of large-scale wireless sensor networks. A wireless sensor network is a system of geographically distributed sensor nodes that communicate with each other over a dynamic and self-organizing wireless network. In a wireless video sensor network (WVSN), each sensor, equipped with video capture and processing capabilities, is tasked to capture digital video information about the target event or situation, and deliver the video data to the remote control unit for further information analysis and decision making.