FireFly Mosaic: A Vision-Enabled Wireless Sensor Networking System

— With the advent of CMOS cameras, it is now possible to make compact, cheap and low-power image sensors capable of on-board image processing. These embedded vision sensors provide a rich new sensing modality enabling new classes of wireless sensor networking applications. In order to build these applications, system designers need to overcome challanges associated with limited bandwith, limited power, group coordination and fusing of multiple camera views with various other sensory inputs. Real-time properties must be upheld if multiple vision sensors are to process data, communicate with each other and make a group decision before the measured environmental feature changes. In this paper, we present FireFly Mosaic, a wireless sensor network image processing framework with operating system, networking and image processing primitives that assist in the development of distributed vision-sensing tasks. Each FireFly Mosaic wireless camera consists of a FireFly [1] node coupled with a CM...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: RTSS
• Authors: Anthony Rowe, Dhiraj Goel, Raj Rajkumar
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Embedded Vision, RTSS 2007, Vision Sensor, Wireless Sensor