We propose joint transmission-recognition schemes for efficient inference at the wireless edge. Motivated by the surveillance applications with wireless cameras, we consider the person classification task over a wireless channel carried out by multi-view cameras operating as edge devices. We introduce deep neural network (DNN) based compression schemes which incorporate digital (separate) transmission and joint source-channel coding (JSCC) methods. We evaluate the proposed device-edge communication schemes under different channel SNRs, bandwidth and power constraints. We show that the JSCC schemes not only improve the end-to-end accuracy but also simplify the encoding process and provide graceful degradation with channel quality.