Smartext

Inspiration

Insufficiency in home monitoring systems

What it does

• OBJECT DETECTION Ultrasonic sensor will detect any object that is within 100 cm from the front door. Camera will capture the image and send it to the server.

• HUMAN DETECTION From an open source dataset of human faces, the system will run the newly captured image, create a box around the object and execute the next command if it is human.

• GREETING If human is detected, the system will greet the human by simply saying “Hello”

• NOTIFICATION The homeowner will then be notified that someone is at the door.

  How I built it

  Arduino + UltraSonic + DragonBoard 410c + WebCam + AWS for CNN and image processing + Amplified sound using opamp

  Challenges I ran into

  Ultrasonic is terrible for object detection, not so reliable

  Accomplishments that I'm proud of

What I learned

Study thread synchronization for next time!!!!

What's next for Smartex

More elaborate communication between homeowner and person by the door

Built With

• arduino
• cnn
• python
• tensorflow