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When reliability is assured by retransmission mechanisms, higher packet error rates do not affect the application quality but result in additional energy consumption due to packet retransmission, even though many monitoring applications can tolerate some loss in the quality of the received image. DWT coding can decompose an image in data subbands, each one with different relevancies for the reconstruction of the original image at the receiver side. We propose an energy-efficient selective hop-by-hop retransmission mechanism where the reliability level of each packet is a function of the relevance of the payload data, according to the resulting subbands and the number of times a 2D DWT is applied over the images captured by the sensors\u2019 cameras. In so doing, some lost packets are not retransmitted, saving energy of intermediate nodes with low impact to the quality of the reconstructed images. 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