AnySense : a Video Communication Architecture for Urban Sensing Applications

Real-time video capture and communication is expected to be an important function in many urban sensor networks composed of camera-equipped mobile phones. In this paper, we present AnySense, a network architecture that supports video communication between 3G phones and Internet hosts in urban sensing applications. AnySense implements transcoding of video streams between the Internet and circuit-switched 3G cellular networks, and is transparent to 3G service providers. A prototype of AnySense has been built and a video clip of system demos is available at http://www.anyserver.org/.