WildFeed builds self-aiming trail cams that learn where wildlife is active

WildFeed streams hunting and fishing live from the field, and most hours no human is controlling its pan-tilt-zoom trail cameras in South Carolina. Cameras often drift to point at the sky after wind, bumps, or manual adjustment, so the team built an automated "aim director." The first phase periodically returns idle, battery-sufficient cameras to their home position, and it never wakes a sleeping camera to conserve power. The second phase builds a heat grid from viewer and system annotations of animal sightings, weighted toward dawn and dusk, and nudges home positions toward the activity centroid while owner-set homes take precedence. The team plans soft live-follow tracking and a rollout to its other two cameras once the pilot succeeds.