Remote Monitoring System of Robotic Car Based on Internet of Things Using Raspberry Pi

Abstract

Development of surveillance and monitoring systems are quite difficult and challenging task at times. The design of a system depends on the environment to be monitored. Such surveillance systems need to have dynamic features, for e.g., cameras used for monitoring may be mobiles, web cams etc. installed to the system. Such systems are used in various large buildings like shopping malls where it could incur high cost for installing cameras in each level of buildings. Even for people like security officers it could be huge task to cover an entire building. Other examples for dynamic surveillance system could be detecting poisonous gases in an area, explosives and any fire risk elements. Another case is that it can reach where the area is not accessed by humans. In view of these challenges we propose a Remote monitoring system where a Robotic Car is installed with camera, Ultrasonic sensor, DHT11, PIR sensors according to the environment involved. The instructions are given to the robotic car using a third party app called Blynk as user interface. Here the raspberry pi is used as a microcontroller which is connected to WIFI acts as the communication medium to connect the server provided by Blynk. The Blynk app which acts as a user interface is interacted with the car using Wi-Fi and its server.