Last night I connected my SBTS local AI, thermal-enabled smart camera to a battery and placed it outside overlooking a field. I hoped to get some video of deer, which I've seen there before. The batter is a 100AH LifePO4 battery, which I estimate would power the camera for 4-5 days. The camera is running continuous, large parameter object detection models continuously so draws around 10W of power.



The setup is as follows:







The main system is a secure boot Rasperry Pi 5, running a two yolov9 models.



One is the standard coco trained model which the system is using to detect people or cars, the other is a custom trained model, trained on data curated by Lars Holst Hansen in connection with the Polarbear Watch Puppy project. The system can use both models at the same time for different parts of the image if required.



I've connected a 5V/5A voltage converter from aliexpress. Connected to the SBTS system is a huawei 3272 internet stick for connectivity and a tiny 640x512 resolution thermal imaging module for which my company, Wildlife Security Innovations has developed video drivers for. The camera is very small, it's just visible on top of the SBTS system. See the inventory link for bigger pictures.



I was hoping to catch some images of deer to show how well thermal with 640x512 resolutions images sees at night. There were no deer though. However, much better I caught a fox!! In the 20 years or so that I've lived here I've never seen a fox in this part of our village before. I'm very happy with that.



Far in the distance, the two white flecks are likely rabbits or hares. At 200m distance.



In addition to the fox, I have numerous small videos of large rats :)



This system additionally allows for live viewing of the cameras. Remove retrieval of videos/images. Real time video alerting and more.



Here's the video.