This software provides Unix programs to get power measurements of (emulated)smart cameras composed of sensing, processing and communication modules.

Check out the project site for all the details like:

• Sample results
• Validation results for sensing, processing and [communication] (http://www-vpu.ii.uam.es/publications/camera_power/data/COM_1_runs_active.pdf)

These experiments have been divided in two phases:

1. Get the measurements and model fitting using Eq. (4). We created three C++ programs to get the measurements under a set of common testing conditions to obtain comparable power measurements for modeling the sensing, processing and communication power.

2. Design and development of the video application. A C++ video application has been created to make use of sensing, processing and communication. This application consists on a tracking-by-detection approach based on the upper-body parts of people [1] which transmits visual descriptors that can be used for people re-identification purposes [2]. The OpenCV library was used to implement the visual analysis algorithms.

A detailed description of the protocol to get the measurements is available at http://www-vpu.eps.uam.es/publications/camera_power/description_validation.pdf

This software is released under the Academic Public License.).

Please cite the following publication if this software helps your research:

@article{sanmiguel2016TCSVT,
  Author = {J. SanMiguel and A. Cavallaro},
  Journal = {IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology},
  Title = {Energy consumption models for smart-camera networks},
  Year = {2016},
  number = {0},
  issue = {0},
  pages = {1-14},
  Month = {(to appear)}
}

• This tool was successfully tested under Ubuntu OS 14.04 64-bit Windows.

  Unix tools required: - libusb v1.0 http://www.libusb.org/ - acpitool, ifconfig, cpufreq-tools, wondershaper

• Matlab scripts have been tested under MS Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) and linux (32-bit) for versions 2012b and 2013a.

The following directories are included:

• appvideo -> C++ video application for multi-target people tracking (client)
• appvideo_server -> C++ server for multi-target people tracking
• campower -> C++ application for experiments related to sensing
• cpupower -> C++ application for experiments related to processing
• wifipower -> C++ application for experiments related to comms (client)
• wifipower_server -> C++ application for experiments related to comms (server)

Each directory contains four main files:

• Makefile -> compile all the code and generate the executable
• readme.txt -> more detailed instructions for running the corresponding executable
• config.ini -> configuration file for each application (also executables can be configured from command line)
• *.sh -> bash script to run a set of experiments with different configurations

If you have any queries, please contact juancarlos.sanmiguel@uam.es.