ABSTRACT
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are one of the key enabling technologies for Internet of things (IoT) applications that help in gathering and providing the requested information from the environment to the user [1,2]. IoT applications aim mainly at utilizing the most advanced communication technologies in order to provide smart services for citizens in several fields, such as health care, public safety, and transportation. In order to build such a smart paradigm, a huge number of IoT devices (sensors) should be deployed to gather and deliver the massive amounts of data through the network. These devices are equipped with storage, communication, computing, and sensing (imaging) capabilities to enable the network elements to communicate multimedia messages with each other and with the end users. Multimedia sensing is facing many challenges, such as energy consumption, cost, and the inability of the current wireless network infrastructure to deal with its huge amounts of data traffic.
