Today’s inter-connected networks enable feature-rich applications that adapt according to situational and environmental changes, and the networks and objects that are discovered. These so-called pervasive applications can be composed from both locally and globally available multimedia resources such as audio and video, web services and context sources. Context sources in these pervasive applica...

This chapter presents an overview of multimedia information transmission over Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). These WSNs have evolved since the 1980s and their evolution can be divided into three generations. Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) have become viable in recent years with the availability of inexpensive video cameras, increase in procession power and memory capacity of node...

Recent advances in the fields of wireless technology and multimedia systems have exhibited a strong potential and tendency on improving human life by enabling smart services in ubiquitous computing environments. This paper investigates a mobile multimedia system through combining various technologies, such as wireless sensor networks, embedded multimedia system and node mobility. In particular,...

Multimedia transmissions over wireless sensor networks may provide valuable information of the monitored field, enhancing monitoring and control applications. However, multimedia streaming can considerably shorten the expected lifetime of battery-operated sensor networks due to the large amount of information to be transmitted from multimediaenabled source nodes. On the other hand, multimedia d...

In the last few years, multimedia processing inWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has become a promising technology. It has the potential to enable a large class of applications, most of them related to surveillance and locating (i.e. target detection and tracking, border protection, patient and elderly assistance, people and object identification, environment monitoring, fire detection, industria...