A Lightweight Routing Protocol for aWireless Video Surveillance Platform: Implementation, Experiments and Perspectives

Recently, a new application of wireless sensor networks has emerged and it consists on Multimedia Surveillance Wireless Sensor Networks (MSWSNs). This application involves interconnected wireless video sensors capable of processing, sending, and receiving data. The first step in this work is to setup a eÿcient wireless video surveillance system to help elders who need assistance while they prefer still living in their houses. The objective is to early detect and transmit via Internet any abnormal behavior or domestic accident to assistance services. For this, small cameras embedded on wireless home deployed sensors have been considered. Moreover, a lightweight routing protocol for an optimized data transmission has been proposed. The whole system was implemented on an Arduino based platform on which a set of experiments were conducted. The second step in an ongoing work is to extend our experiments to a safety wireless video surveillance platform in an urban and public environments.