A color frame reproduction technique for IoT-based video surveillance application

In this paper, we present an IoT-based power-efficient color frame transmission and generation algorithm for video surveillance application. The conventional way is to transmit all R, G and B components of all frames. Using our proposed technique, instead of sending all components, first one color frame is sent followed by a series of gray-scale frames. After a certain number of gray-scale frames, another color frame is sent followed by the same number of gray-scale frames. This process is repeated for video surveillance system. In the decoder, color information is formulated from the color frame and then used to colorize the gray-scale frames. Our experimental results show that the IoT-based approach gives better results than traditional techniques in terms of both energy efficiency and quality of the video, and therefore, can enable sensor nodes in IoT to perform more operations with energy constraints.