1. An outdoor lighting network (OLN) comprising: lighting units equipped with capabilities to communicate with other lighting units in the OLN, said lighting units including, an imaging device, the imaging device configured to communicate with at least one of the lighting units; a sensor module, the sensor module configured to communicate sensor data to at least one of the lighting units, wherein the sensor module includes an imaging sensor device or multiple different sensor devices, wherein the sensor data relates to an environmental area of a respective lighting unit; and a control module configured to record image data from the imaging device of a selected event, only when the selected event is on a list of predetermined selected events that trigger the lighting unit data recording by the imaging device, wherein the selected event is based on sensor data from the sensor module, wherein the control module uses the imaging device data or a combination of multiple different sensor data to identify predetermined events and determine if the identified predetermined events relates to a trigger in the list of predetermined selected events, and assign an event type and a priority to the recorded image data and transmit only the recorded image data of selected events or the selected events of a predetermined priority to a lighting manager, and allow a user to receive portions of the recorded image data of selected events by a different communication method than transmission to the lighting manager.