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Camera-enabled sensors deployed for visual monitoring will cover a region of the target field, providing information for many innovative applications based on wireless sensing. Actually, some areas of the monitored field may have more relevance than others, according to the characteristics of the applications, which may indicate that such areas need better coverage to avoid blind spots and achieve...
The use of sensing technologies in industrial environments has opened many possibilities for monitoring and control applications, driving much research efforts in the last years. Among the challenging issues related to industrial wireless sensor networks, efficient nodes deployment is a major concern since it can directly impact the way sensors operate, which has demanded proper solutions. When sensing...
The use of Mobile ad hoc networking is a growing trend that encompasses a wide spectrum of application domains, including health care, defense, crisis management and others. In common, they all require quick deployment, dynamic communications, and security assurance. Although substantial effort has been put into the security aspect, the results so far have not been enough to claim high levels of information...
Visual sensors can be used to retrieve still images or video streams in a large set of monitoring applications, providing valuable information of the monitored environment. In fact, camera-enabled sensors are directional and the viewed area depends on their orientations. As the positions and orientations of the embedded cameras may not be optimal after deployment, the area viewed by sensors may be...
In wireless visual sensor networks comprised of multiple camera-enabled sensors, source prioritization can be exploited to soften the impact of congestion, packet loss and energy depletion when higher relevant packets are processed. However, for such optimizations, source nodes have to be properly prioritized according to some effective metric. When performing visual sensing over moving targets, sensors...
Wireless sensor networks can provide visual information from the monitored field when sensor nodes are equipped with low-power cameras. In general, visual monitoring applications supported by sensing technology will have to address many challenging issues when visual information has to be transmitted over resource-constrained sensors. When addressing energy efficiency, sensing redundancy can be exploited...
As Wireless Sensor Networks have been employed to support critical monitoring applications, network availability has become a major design concern. In these networks, redundancy can be exploited to enhance the attainable availability level, where redundant sensors can replace faulty nodes. When camera-enabled sensors are deployed to retrieve visual information, the perception of redundancy changes...
Wireless visual sensor networks can provide significant information for a large set of monitoring and surveillance applications. In these networks, mobile sinks are often used to reduce energy consumption over the network, where many algorithms have been proposed for higher energy efficiency. Frequently, visual sensors may have different relevancies for the monitoring functions of the applications,...
Wireless sensor networks can be deployed for a large set of monitoring functions, providing information as humidity, pressure, temperature, luminosity, among many others. When monitored data is transmitted over wireless links, packets can be corrupted requiring some error recovery strategy. Hop-by-hop retransmission can provide an acceptable level of reliability, but can potentially increase the energy...
Wireless sensor networks composed of camera-enabled source nodes can provide visual information of an area of interest, potentially enriching monitoring applications. While few bytes can represent scalar data, even low-resolution still images may require thousand of bytes, turning data fragmentation into a relevant design issue. Different optimization approaches have been proposed in recent years...
Typical wireless multimedia sensor networks are composed of many randomly deployed nodes which can retrieve information from the monitored field and relay packets following a hop-by-hop communication model. The transmission of packets from source nodes to the destination may flow across multiple paths, each one comprised of a number of intermediate nodes. The simple existence of a sensing unit in...
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