solar powered wireless security camera
Proxim, Hutton Ship Solar-Powered Wireless Camera
Interesting product shipping from US manufacturer Hutton Communications
A combination of wireless gear including a directional yagi antenna, a security camera, and a solar power solution.
Why is this interesting? Take away the camera, replace it with some sort of low-power computer, and it's pretty close to what we are trying to achieve here at wire.less.dk, for use in remote regions of the developing world. Solar-powered, autonomous connectivity.
The Solacam (that's right, no "r") uses a mixture of technologies to deliver a remote digital video signal back to your network. Chief among them is use of the Proxim Tsunami MP.11, an 802.11b-based, point-to-multipoint backhaul solution with a range up to about 12 miles. The Solacam itself is an IP video camera mounted on a freestanding pole in a remote location, powered by a battery that is charged by a solar panel that's also mounted on the pole. A Yagi directional antenna points the low-res video back to home base (assuming it uses the MP.11 subscriber station... the pole could also house the MP.11 base station). The MP.11 and battery are housed in an all-weather enclosure.
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