An Integration Framework of Three-Dimensional Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network with Cloud Computing for Surveillance Applications

Objectives: Three-Dimensional Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (3-D WMSNs) are the type of WSN. These networks deal with multimedia content such as images in various formats, video, and audio etc. Moreover 3-D WMSNs are widely used for surveillance applications, underwater monitoring, aerial surveillance, urban warfare, monitoring infrastructure of national importance etc. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The system presents an integrated framework of three-dimensional wireless multimedia sensor network with cloud computing for surveillance applications. The integrated framework of 3D WMSNs with cloud computing is suitable for monitoring and surveillance in multi-floor buildings or marine environment. The client utilizes http protocol to interact with framework. At the server side, the sensor nodes collect the data and transfer the data to cloud where it is stored and processed in a distributed environment. On the client side, the user utilizes web services to retrieve data from the distributed SQL databases. Findings: User can fully access cloud service using devices that have internet capabilities. The work focuses distributed computing and resource allocation of processing three-dimensional wireless multimedia sensor data, and performance evaluation over various parameters settings in a cloud environment. Application/Improvements: We utilize CloudSim for simulating the cloud computing environment. The benefits of the system include basic computing hardware and reasonable storage capacities making it suitable for any 3D WMSN which provides real time monitoring and surveillance.