With long-term timelapse comes the constraint of storage of thousands of images.

Let’s take an example: covering a one-year project, capturing with a 1-minute interval, 12 hours a day, assuming 2.5 MB per image, will result in a total of 65.7 GB of data. Today’s µSD cards offer very large capacities but remain fragile devices, especially in outdoor conditions.

 

Basically, it means that you either need to manually and periodically backup your data or pray for non-data loss. Remember Murphy's law, anything that can go wrong will go wrong...

 

The Tikee camera takes another approach. It embeds wireless connectivity, allowing it to continuously upload pictures to our cloud. In the end, the local storage µSD card only acts as a buffer, providing the camera a virtually limitless storage capacity while securing your data.

 

Tikee integrates both Wifi and LTE wireless technologies. You can use Wifi if you have one at proximity, while LTE allows you to connect the camera almost anywhere. We chose a Cat4 module providing a high data rate up to 50 Mbps in uplink and so the best compromise between throughput and power consumption. Last but not least, it has worldwide coverage.

 

 

Article written by Kévin Picot, Tech lead & Co-Founder of Enlaps