In this chapter, you learned how to work with a camera with Intel Galileo. Before developing applications with Intel Galileo, we have provided an introduction to the OpenCV library. We have briefly looked at the OpenCV library and at how we can build the library for Intel Galileo Yocto Linux.

Then we developed simple applications to capture images and record video from USB and network cameras. After having enough practice with cameras, we added a new module to the Smart Home application to add some new security features such as getting captures when we detect a motion or when a door sensor is open.

In the following chapter, we will make our Smart Home application work as a service application or a background process. We will add new features to the Smart Home application and use the Yocto Project to define the service recipe file in order to add an application as a service.