# How to send pictures over cellular?

**URL:** https://community.particle.io/t/how-to-send-pictures-over-cellular/51779
**Category:** General
**Tags:** boron
**Created:** [August 20, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/how-to-send-pictures-over-cellular/51779 "2019-08-20T17:18:02Z")
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### Author: ![navjot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f08c70/32.png) [@navjot](https://community.particle.io/u/navjot)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/how-to-send-pictures-over-cellular/51779/1 "2019-08-20T17:18:02Z")

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Hi,

I’m working on a project where I would like to have a raspberry pi camera take pictures of its environment and then have those pictures sent over cellular to be stored on a database. I realize even if I compress the images down to say 200x200, I will still quickly reach the Particle 5Mb data limit. Has anyone managed to send pictures over cellular through Particle or another service provider? Open to switching to entirely different hardware, if necessary. I’m looking to send ~100Mb per month.

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### Author: ![rdotkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@rdotkey](https://community.particle.io/u/rdotkey)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/how-to-send-pictures-over-cellular/51779/2 "2021-03-06T00:07:46Z")

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Hi navjot!

I’m working on a similar project. Have you had any luck with yours?

I’d love to hear about it.

Roger

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### Author: ![ScruffR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/scruffr/32/6952_2.png) [@ScruffR](https://community.particle.io/u/ScruffR)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2021, 7:54am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/how-to-send-pictures-over-cellular/51779/3 "2021-03-06T07:54:19Z")

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I have done it in this project, but the transfer speed and data consumption may present a problem

> [@uCAM III-application (including TCP- and HTTP transfer)](https://community.particle.io/t/ucam-iii-application-including-tcp-and-http-transfer/40170/50):
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> I’m just finishing the PoC for the TCP transfer. Update: @Vitesze & @RWB, I’ve now “completed” the example to also support a TCP data sink. I haven’t yet tested with an Electron, but a simple NodeJS server running on any computer can receive the images and stores them as #####.jpg in an out folder. Since JPEG will probably be used the most, for laziness I even save the BMP images that way blush However the sample server can be modified to look for the BMP header and choose the correct ext…