Visual sensor networks have emerged as an important class of sensor‐based distributed
intelligent systems, with unique performance, complexity, and quality of service challenges …

Wireless sensor networks typically consist of a great number of tiny low-cost electronic
devices with limited sensing and computing capabilities which cooperatively communicate …

With the advent of visual sensor networks (VSNs), energy‐aware compression algorithms
have gained wide attention. That is, new strategies and mechanisms for power‐efficient …

Meerkats is a wireless network of battery-operated camera nodes, that can be used for
monitoring and surveillance of wide areas. This paper describes the Meerkats architecture …

Energy-efficiency in visual surveillance is the most important issue for wireless multimedia
sensor network (WMSN) due to its energy-constraints. This paper addresses the trade-off …

Electrical battery apparatus embodiments are presented that generally involve incorporating
sensing, computing, and communication capabilities into the one common compo nent that …

Energy-efficient and robust face detection and recognition scheme can be useful for many
application fields such as security and surveillance in multimedia and visual sensor network …

WSNs are distributed sensing tools with monitoring capabilities unavailable until now.
Network elements (sensor nodes) are frequently pointed out as a new computer systems …

Abstract THE Internet of Things (IoT) is a new paradigm of interconnectivity that has recently
garnered attention in the field of ICT, with an estimated proliferation of 50-200 billion …

During the last decade, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have received wide attention
from researchers and academia. Recently, a new generation of wireless sensor multimedia …