Wireless camera network system: Test of concept

In this manuscript a modular wireless system with low power consumption for image acquisition is presented. This system consists out of NXP LPC1786 microcontroller, Linksprite camera LSY201 with JPEG compression and UART interface, and Wifly RN131G Wi-Fi module. System is setup to be a part of Wi-Fi based wireless camera network and communicate with a distant control and acquisition system over a TCP/IP protocol. The aggregate speed of image acquisition and data transfer for various compression ratios are compared in order to explore further applicability of this system and possible technical advances in this field.