Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network: A Review

Abstract: Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is emerging field of research for multimedia communication. A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a network of spatially distributed devices using sensors in a dense manner. This network monitors the physical or environment conditions. In the past, conventional data communication was the major interest in research community. Now the growing needs of technology develop research space for multimedia communication. This envisioned the applications may able to capture information in the form of multimedia such as image, audio and video. The popularity of these applications highlighted the limitations or technical challenges of multimedia communication. In this paper, a review on the application areas and technical challenges on the multimedia communication of the WSN is presented.

Keywords: WSN, Multimedia Communication, Conventional Data Communication, Spatially Distributed Devices