Ethernet based programable sensors

From: Anthony Simpson (as69_at_york.ac.uk)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:30:37 +0100

Does anybody know of a cmos based camer that has an intergrated
microcontroler which can be programed to process images, background
subtraction - point tracking and then stream custom data across tcp/ip?

It just seems so wrong to be using usb cameras, I'm streaming 4 into my
computer at the moment and the bandwidth on my usb2 is already critical -
what i want is a cloud of customisable vision sensors that only braudcast
the data I need in a format I want.