Not out of the box. But, with basic Linux skills you can cobble together a Rasberry PI with WIFI , full Linux and iIts easy to use camera peripheral, and available battery packs for well under $100. All FOSS so feel free to bring your project to market when you have what you want.
The reason why it has to be battery-powered is because it'll be about 100 feet from my house, mounted up high on a tree. There's no way I'll be able to power a rig like that via a battery/solar panel which would hardly get any light during summer because of taller trees around it. The cameras out there that work on battery alone for 5 months would have sustained the spring/summer months with minimal charging via a solar panel, but alas they don't dump to a local server.
An even lower powered solution is an ESP32 + camera module. You have to program it yourself but you can do anythign you want with it, I had mine upload to AWS S3.
But no matter what you do, WiFi is going to be the limiting factor for your battery life since it requires a relatively high amount of power to connect and upload the images. There's some optimization you can do on the low level to cut down on connection time for exampel but there's only so much that can be done.
You're not going to find any off the shelf wifi connected camera that meets those requirements. wifi eats tons of power.
At best you could pair something like an ESP32-CAM with a PIR sensor to keep the ESP32 in deep sleep mode till the PIR sensor triggers to wake it up, then it records a short clip and sends it off via some transport protocol of your choice. Depending on the number of triggering events your battery life might be days to weeks. Keep in mind you are probably still going to need an SD card of
If you have to ask how much it is, you can't afford it.
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Not out of the box. But, with basic Linux skills you can cobble together a Rasberry PI with WIFI , full Linux and iIts easy to use camera peripheral, and available battery packs for well under $100. All FOSS so feel free to bring your project to market when you have what you want.
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An even lower powered solution is an ESP32 + camera module. You have to program it yourself but you can do anythign you want with it, I had mine upload to AWS S3.
But no matter what you do, WiFi is going to be the limiting factor for your battery life since it requires a relatively high amount of power to connect and upload the images. There's some optimization you can do on the low level to cut down on connection time for exampel but there's only so much that can be done.
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