At first, I want to tell you about why I want to create these articles.
So the main problem is high-level deaths on the road. I will do several articles for this item. This article will like introductory.
So what I will do? I this article I want to create an IoT device for a car that will detection of animals and pedestrians on the road and sent a signal to this device, this device will make an attention signal.
I these articles I will be investigating LIDAR technology and stereo-cameras. And after that, create the best solution for a car which will not expensive.
Why I will compare these two methods? Because in this investigation article from Cornell University, considering method compare LIDAR technology and simples cameras https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/04/new-way-see-objects-accelerates-future-self-driving-cars . As I understood LIDAR — this is not a prerequisite. So I also want to investigate this question, for my solutions and implement the best approach.
After investigating some issues such as, what better lidar or simple camera?
I came to the decision that the camera is better for my case.
Because lidar 2D will check only that object where located at the same height. It’s now fine for me. And after investigate lidar technology — in my opinion, it’s not the best solution for my issue. Because lidar should be located in a car — not in the car, and this maybe will a problem. Also if I will use lidar in the car — lidar will perceive the windshield as an obstacle. And after investigating a lot of articles I decided to use the camera without any sensors.
So I will create an IoT device for cars for detecting pedestrians and animals on the road. In this project, I want to use:
- Raspberry Pi 4 (4 RAM)
- camera for raspberry pi
- Power bank
- USB cables
- Arduino board
- 1 led lamp
- 1 resistor
- 2 cable (mother-father)
- and almost all my experience in DevOps and Data-science area :)
This all that I need to detect pedestrians and animals on the road.
My plans next:
- introduction to my project — Part 1(this article)
- create simple recognition object detection in the live time — Part 2 (here)
- create fast recognition object detection in the live time — Part 3(here)
- create simple recognition for animals and pedestrians without object detection with a led warning in the live time — Part 4 (tomorrow)
- create an object detection for animals
- create an object detection for animals and pedestrians
- create an object detection for animals and pedestrians and add show “warning” if the distance is too short to camera
- create an object detection for animals and pedestrians and add show “warning” if the distance is too short to the camera and send a signal to led lamps
- testing
- created full documentation and videos how to do that.
I hope I can create this project — because it can save many lives.
Thank you :)
