HardwareIoT
ESP32-CAM Security Box
Security box that photographs anyone opening the safe, stores to SD card and messages the owner's phone.
DisciplinesHardware · IoT
Our roleDesign, build, release
Technologies
ESP32-CAMSD storageImage capturePush messagingPCB design
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ESP32-CAM Security Box
The challenge
What was in the way.
ESP32-CAM Security Box needed hardware and iot work delivered as one system rather than split across vendors — security box that photographs anyone opening the safe, stores to SD card and messages the owner's phone.
Disciplines in scope
HardwareIn scope
Firmware / IoTIn scope
AI / ML—
Web & mobile—
How we built it.
We restated the brief as constraints — power, latency, cost, compliance — and named the ones that conflicted. A working slice through the riskiest layer was signed off first, then built out in two-week increments with one demo each, reviewed against the same engineering standard across hardware and software.
01Technical discovery
02Architecture & prototype
03Build & iterate
04Deploy & hand over
ESP32-CAM programming
Security systems
Image capture & storage
01Shipped
Delivered to production and still maintained by the team that built it.02Tested
One test matrix across hardware, firmware and interface — no gaps between layers.03Documented
Runbooks, monitoring and escalation handed over with the system.04Scaled
Grew with usage without re-architecture or a second rebuild.