SenseTK: A Multimodal, Multimedia Sensor Networking Toolkit

This paper describes the design and implementation of a multi-modal, multimedia capable sensor networking framework called SenseTK. SenseTK allows application writers to easily construct multi-modal, multimedia sensor networks that include both traditional scalar-based sensors as well as sensors capable of recording sound and video. The distinguishing features of such systems include the need to push application processing deep within the sensor network, the need to bridge extremely low power and low computation devices, and the need to distribute and manage such systems. This paper describes the design and implementation of SenseTK and provides several diverse examples to show the flexibility and unique aspects of SenseTK. Finally, we experimentally measure several aspects of SenseTK.