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Frequently asked questions

About project governance

Where is this project coming from?

The No-picture Camera project emerged from the Urban Moves Hackathon 2016 that was sponsored by Nokia in Paris area.

Is this software available to anyone?

Yes. The software and the documentation have been open-sourced from the outset, so that it can be useful to the global community that enjoys Raspberry, OpenCV, IoT, LoRa and the like. The No-picture Camera project is based on the Apache License.

Do you accept contributions to this project?

Yes. There are multiple ways for end-users and for non-developers to contribute to this project. For example, if you hit an issue, please report it at GitHub. This is where we track issues and report on corrective actions.

And if you know how to clone a GitHub project, we are happy to consider pull requests with your modifications. This is the best approach to submit additional reference configuration files, or updates of the documentation, or even evolutions of the python code.

About project design

What is needed to deploy a No-picture Camera?

Everything you need can be installed on a single Raspberry Pi device:

  • the camera itself
  • the scanning software powered by OpenCV
  • the InfluxDB database
  • the Grafana web dashboard

Read instructions to setup a standalone camera, including OpenCV, the scanning software, the InfluxDB database and the Grafana dashboard, all on the same Raspberry PI.

If you have multiple boards, then consider instructions to connect smart cameras over LoRa. All cameras will run OpenCV, and one Raspberry Pi will act as a central datastore, with InfluxDB and Grafana, so that you can enjoy cameras data from a single pane of glass.