2 Battery Powered Camera Functions

For battery powered camera, the most important functions are recording and uploading video stream to remote cloud or transferring video stream to remote PC or mobile phone. Beside the functionality, there are some other additional functions to highlight different camera products, such as PTZ function, remotely talking, night vision, auto recording when someone enters monitoring area, or can be powered by solar panel so easily install anywhere.

Figure 2-1 Function Block of Battery Powered Camera

There are several good functions in battery powered cameras, but customer experience is not good if the battery only works for a short time. So, for power rails design, the design not only implements all of the needed various power rails, but also to have a reasonable power design topology structure and firmware running processing, how to charge battery, save every micro energy from shutdown or sleep components to extend working lifetime as long as possible.