Wireless indoor surveillance robot

Abstract

Self-propelled patrolling vehicle can patrol periodically in the designed area as a surveillance robot to ensure the safety like men do. The proposed robot based on the self-propelled vehicle not only can save manpower but also ensure the operation of surveillance being well performed. Due to the limitation of manpower and the fixed camera positions, using surveillance is different from the traditional patrolling system. The paper proposes a self-propelled patrolling vehicle which can move automatically to a wider range and record the monitored image within a predefined patrolling route to improve the performance of the traditional patrolling system. Besides, the surveillance robot can be connected to the mobile device or website on Internet at anytime and anywhere. Furthermore, the vehicle can be remote controlled by the instruction sent form the server or Smartphone to move to the position to get the indoor image we want. On the other hand, the position of self-propelled vehicles can be detected by the RFID readers mounted on the wall of the patrolling path as a feedback. The IP-CAM is also mounted on the proposed robot to record the images and transmit them back to the server via WiFi system for face tracking and discriminating analysis. As an alarm report, the proposed surveillance would use the build-in MSN module to notice users of the predefined events when happened. Experimental results are given in the paper to validate its performance.