Off-Grid solar-powered WiFi webcam
SolarCamPi is an off-grid webcam solution, that can take a picture using a Raspberry Pi Camera or a USB webcam every 5 minutes and send the image over a long-distance WiFi link.
Using a very specialised Linux image on the Raspberry Pis SD card, booting, taking a picture and sending it over WiFi can be done in under 15 seconds. This allows the Raspberry Pi to be powered off most of the time, saving energy.
A small 5W solar panel with a 16F, 16V ultracapacitor bank can run this setup permanently, even at night.
With a 7.2Ah lead-gel battery, this installation can run without any external power for several months.
Continuous operation, even with long-term exposures at night is possible with the small solar panel.
SolarCamPi’s communicate with a cloud-hosted web panel, which can be used to view the captured images.
Device status (battery voltage, solar panel parameters, etc.) can be tracked as well.
The web interface provides a list of all image uploads, with additional telemetry like the WiFi signal strength, custom image parameters, etc.
Configuration (network settings, API keys, management tunnels, cutoff voltages, image intervals) can be remotely changed and will be applied at the next image upload:
On-device PHP interpreter allows for maximum flexibility even in tricky setups.
A user-defined PHP script takes parameters like the current time or external sensor inputs and can modify the image acquisition accordingly. This script can also return additional telemetry (like sensor values).
Commands (like configuration changes, firmware updates, register read/write) will get queued online and delivered with the next image upload cycle. After the next image upload has finished, the camera is sent a list of tasks to execute (like updating files, etc.):
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