Beyond stream processing — A distributed vision architecture for the Internet of Things

An `edge-based' image processing architecture for the internet of things (IoT) is devised, drawing on the existing image processing pipelines that are implemented in today's imaging modules in digital cameras and smartphones. A key element of this IoT framework is that image or video data does not have to be streamed across the network, but can be largely processed on the sensing nodes with metadata transmitted to intermediate control nodes that can detect certain events/conditions and trigger corresponding actions.