Development of a Smart Motion Detection Device for Home and Office Security Applications

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to develop, implement and test an effective and practical working solution to a smart motion detector for LPWAN technologies using appropriate software and hardware platform. The smart motion detection system consists of a Raspberry Pi, an LCD display, PIR sensors, and wires. The hardware design collaborates with Python programming by being installed on a Raspberry Pi, and it is a key function to detect who is entering a room. The proposed smart motion detector will be able to detect whether a person is leaving or entering a room by analyzing signals from multiple motion sensors. The research carried out a comparative analysis of LoRA, SigFox, NB-IOT Low Power Wide Area Network technologies which include the principle of operation, characteristics, hardware, and make recommendation for the most suitable technology. The remote status update function implementation was done where the system sends the motion events to the cloud over a wireless interface using MQTT protocol. The evaluation which was based on extensive simulation demonstrated the detection of each sensor. Keywords: Smart motion detector, Raspberry pi, Python coding, PIR sensors, LPWAN technologies