Abstract

Wireless sensor network is an important technology that is being employed for the observation of a
variety of phenomena in the physical world. Video-based sensor networks can provide multimedia
application evolved towards live video streaming and static images for surveillance and monitoring
purposes. In this project, our aim is to design multimedia network capable of sending real time video
and static images through LAN and WAN. One of the methods is by using ArduCAM shield which has
limited capacity of real time video streaming. So, we made a design enhancement to Raspberry Pi
Module along with Raspberry Pi Camera. This framework is capable of sending real-time video with
less delay to a remote area on a Smartphone android application. This architecture proposal ad-
dresses some challenges over the network that is frame loss, information loss and interferences. As
a future work, we will make a design enhancement towards the commercializing of the project.
Design and Development of Sensor Motes For Video Sensor Networks

Project advisor: Dr Ali Nawaz Khan
Introduction
Video based wireless sensor networks are capable of capturing video at distributed video sensor
nodes and transmitting the video via wireless link to a centralized location. This Video information
provides significant benefits to many sensor networking applications, such as security or surveillance,
environmental monitoring, health-care monitoring. Compared with wired camera networks, wireless
video sensor network has many advantages like cost reduction for network installation, extending the
monitoring target areas from indoors of houses or buildings to the whole residential districts, easy ad-
aptation upon changes of utilization. These cameras provide fantastic area coverage but exposes
system to overload if the cameras are expected to deliver continuously live video streaming. But by
embedding intelligence, one can limit to get required information and this information can be deliv-
ered to a remote observer.
This hardware based project focuses on high frame rate video transmission on LAN, WLAN and
WAN. There are a lot of commercial techniques available in the market to complete this task i.e IP
camera. Compared to the other commercially available camera system our product can provide a
high resolution and high frame rate information at a low cost. Wireless video-based sensors have
very have to face some constrained resources like low bandwidth, frame loss and information loss
etc. Irrespective to these limitations our product is capable of sending real-time video with less delay
over a wireless medium.

Group members
Muhammad Asad Ullah SP10-BTE-028
Muhammad umer zeshan SP10-BTE-031
Badar Ul Islam Saadi SP10-BTE-010
Muhammad Saad Sarfraz SP10-BTE-029
Applications
Health monitoring
Battle field images
Security monitoring
Outdoor IP camera
TOOLS
Hardware
Arduino
ArduCAM Shield
Raspberry Pi
Camera
Application
VLC
Netcat
Mplayer