I need to build a setup which includes a waterproof camera, an RFID detector, and an SD card, and maybe WiFi. The setup is for monitoring of small animals (rats) in their natural habitat for research purposes. The time of taking images is important here, it should be relatively fast. I experimented with the waterproof Adafruit TTL serial camera in the past and the entire process of transferring the data to Arduino and saving it on the SD card takes quite a long time - up to 30 - 35 seconds at 640x480 image size. Is there a better solution, with a faster processing time? I would like to use Arduino, but, if its absolutely necessary, may consider Raspberri Pi.
This camera looks interesting. Thanks! As I understand, it has its own SD card. Ideally, the camera must have receive some sort of a trigger from Arduino. Also, the images and the data from RFID should be saved on the same SD card. The time stamp is also needed, so the setup will probably include the RTC clock.
Plenty of real cameras can be remotely controlled. All of them timestamp their own pictures but it would be much simpler to use an RTC on Arduino. Those that have WiFi can send high-resolution pictures in a blink. All you have to do is make Arduino look like a phone with proprietary camera software, receive the pictures, and add the data from the peripherals.
