Smart cameras are becoming increasingly popular. There are many applications and use cases. This is what makes the OpenMV kickstarter so exciting. The project is about a camera module with some smarts behind it. OpenMV is a MicroPython-powered machine vision camera that gives your project the power of computer vision without the need for a laptop or GPU.
We are already seeing interesting use cases: drones are getting intelligent cameras and self-driving cars are loaded with smart cameras.To read more about the smart camera project visit their kickstarter page here