Miner Video Tracking and Identification Using Optical Camera Communications in a Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network

Following several underground mine disasters, the U.S. government changed its safety policies for underground mines. These new regulations state mandatory wireless communications and tracking of personnel. In this context, wireless multimedia sensor networks have been implemented to provide position information and mine surveillance. The recent development of optical camera communications has enable these networks to provide not only multimedia transmission, but also wireless data communications. In this manuscript, we proposed a novel miner video tracking and identification system using wireless multimedia sensor networks and optical camera communication to overcome the problems of video tracking and identifying personnel inside a challenging scenario such as underground mines.