Pi Jeeves

Flat owners will agree that it is a problem when there is no one home and a visitor arrives. Especially if the visitor comes unannounced or with bad intentions. The idea behind the project is to replace the peep hole with the web camera attached to the Raspberry Pi.

The camera constantly records and detects motion. If there is motion detected the camera will try to recognize a face. If a face (or a human) is recognized it will begin recording the video and audio notifying the owners of a flat via Azure Notification Hub. If the visitor tries to speak a Bing speech recognition system will be used to transcribe the message and both the text and the audio file will be sent to the flat owner.

Additionally, a detector will be placed on the doors connected to the GPIO Raspberry Pi pins. If there is an entry to the apartment, the Pi will notify the owner.

The project utilizes the power of the Raspberry Pi computing platform running Windows Core IoT and leverages the power of Azure cloud computing for advanced tasks.