Implementation of an ieee 802.15.4 compliant multi-hop wireless sensor network for energy-efficient sensor data and progressive image transmission

In this paper the prototype of an IEEE 802.15.4 compliant multi-hop wireless sensor network for energy-efficient sensor data and progressive image data transmission is proposed. For progressive transmission of JPEG and JPEG2000 encoded images a proprietary code stream has been developed. The JPEG and JPEG2000 codecs have been implemented in software. For the implementation of the wireless sensor network we used Texas Instruments hardware modules because they conveniently support IEEE 802.15.4 compliance, energy-efficiency as well as high transmission and data security.