Alexa Security Camera

Inspiration

We live in a rather sketchy part of Green Bay, because we're college students and rent is expensive. We also hate hearing concerning sounds in the middle of the night, and trying to figure out if someone's outside our door.

Before the Alexa Security Camera, the Alexa didn't have a whole lot of significant use. It sets alarms, it reads out emails, but it can't tell me the distance between Green Bay and Milwaukee.

We decided to make the Alexa more useful, and we built one of the World's first Alexa security cameras in less than 12 hours.

What it does

It uses an AI to detect if a person is in the image, and lets you know.

How we built it

We use two node.js servers, one for the image recognition and one for the web API.

An alexa skill trigger an AWS Lambda function, that sents a request to the API to see if someone is there.

If someone is there, then it tells you.

Challenges we ran into

API requests, image recognition, node.js servers, CAMPUS WIFI BLOCKING PORTS.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It's fairly accurate, and doesn't use a lot of resources.

What we learned

Tons of stuff about all of the technologies above. We got way better at pair programming, because it's a first for both of us.

What's next for Alexa Security Camera

Different types of cameras such as Android/iPhone, handheld cameras, etc.

Built With

• aws-lambda
• echo-dot
• express.js
• ngrok
• node.js
• opencv
• python
• webcam