# Does Wyze plan to make a battery powered camera?

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**Category:** Cameras\
**Tags:** iphone-ipad\
**Created:** [January 2, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/does-wyze-plan-to-make-a-battery-powered-camera/81806 "2020-01-02T21:44:48Z")\
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Yes from what I understand the outdoor camera being developed now will be battery powered. Not sure when it will be released but it sounded near to release.

> [@An update on outdoor camera](https://forums.wyze.com/t/an-update-on-outdoor-camera/73375):
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> Hey everyone. This is Dongsheng from Wyze. I am a co-founder & CPO at wyze. I am also the main Product manager ( along with a few other PMs ) on the outdoor camera. I have some updates on the outdoor camera : The outdoor cam will not be launching in 2019. Right now we’re planning to launch in early 2020.The delay is a result of challenges with the PIR motion sensor in an outdoor environment. Since the outdoor cam is battery powered, we had to develop a new motion alert algorithm that uses radi…

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