Mesh network adapter, method for transmitting image data from a camera to a remote computer

A mesh network adapter designed to communicate with a camera and configured to form a mesh node in a wireless mesh network, said network adapter comprising:

• a housing;
• a microprocessor located inside said housing;
• a non-volatile onboard data storage medium located inside said housing, and operatively connected to said microprocessor;
• a transceiver located inside said housing, and operatively connected to said microprocessor;
• a removable memory card adapted for inserting into a complementary card slot formed with said housing;
• an elongated flexible extension cable having an adapter end and camera end, said flexible cable operatively connecting to said microprocessor at the adapter end, and interfacing with said onboard data storage medium and said removable memory card;
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• a rigid male connector formed with camera end of said flexible cable and having a footprint configuration corresponding to a footprint configuration of said removable memory card, and said male connector comprising a plurality of exposed metal contacts adapted to mate with complementary contacts in a memory card slot of the camera, whereby said microprocessor functions to control the transfer of image data from the camera through said flexible cable to said removable memory card, and from said removable memory card to said onboard data storage medium for subsequent wireless transmission to a gateway within the mesh network.