The worldwide flourishing of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the past decade has enabled numerous new applications through the internetworking of a wide variety of devices and sensors. More recently, visual sensors have seen their considerable booming in IoT systems because they are capable of providing richer and more versatile information. Internetworking of large-scale visual sensors has been named Internet of Video Things (IoVT). IoVT has its own unique characteristics in terms of sensing, transmission, storage, and analysis, which are fundamentally different from the conventional IoT. These new characteristics of IoVT are expected to impose significant challenges to existing technical infrastructures. In this article, an overview of recent advances in various fronts of IoVT will be introduced and a broad range of technological and system challenges will be addressed. Several emerging IoVT applications will be discussed briefly to illustrate the potentials of IoVT in a broad range of practical scenarios.

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视频物联网：具有视觉传感器的下一代物联网


过去十年，物联网 (IoT) 在全球范围内蓬勃发展，通过各种设备和传感器的互联，催生了大量新应用。最近，视觉传感器在物联网系统中蓬勃发展，因为它们能够提供更丰富、更通用的信息。大规模视觉传感器的联网被称为视频物联网（IoVT）。物联网在感知、传输、存储、分析等方面都有自己独特的特点，与传统的物联网有着本质的区别。物联网的这些新特性预计将对现有技术基础设施带来重大挑战。本文将概述车联网各个领域的最新进展，并解决广泛的技术和系统挑战。我们将简要讨论几种新兴的 IoVT 应用，以说明 IoVT 在广泛的实际场景中的潜力。