Smart Spying Robot with IR Thermal Vision

Recently, with rising public security awareness, the demand for an efficient surveillance system has become highly significant. But, several monitoring systems developed have certain drawbacks limiting their applications. Therefore, a refined surveillance system has been proposed which could be utilized in many fields, especially in border areas for intrusion detection, to reduce the crime rates and to serve tremendous purposes. The project focuses on building a spying robot for maneuvering and monitoring in perilous environments. The module includes Raspberry Pi interfaced with DC motors, GPS, Pi camera, and IR Thermal camera sensor. Meanwhile, the motion of the robot could be controlled by a web application through Wi-fi connectivity. This robot is programmed to stream the live data over a virtual network and update the captured images along with the time stamp and location at certain instances to the cloud. Hence, it can transmit real-time videos and pictures with thermal vision capabilities and due to its unobtrusive nature, it can be utilized in war zones. Also, this can be used in observing disaster-affected regions that are beyond human reach.