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Wireless Remote Monitoring System using Raspberry Pi and IOT Technology

G. ARUNSAGAR1, P. SATYAVANI2
1
PG Scholar, Dept of ECE, Kakinada Institute of Engineering and Technology -II, JNTUK, AP, India,
E-mail: arunsagar789@gmail.com.
2
Assistant Professor, Dept of ECE, Kakinada Institute of Engineering and Technology -II, JNTUK, AP, India,
E-mail: satya.perabathula@gmail.com.

Abstract: In order to upgrade the conventional remote
monitoring service, the embedded system design and
implementation method for the wireless remote monitoring
service, which provides a wireless image observation, is
proposed in this paper. The first method is based on the
embedded system design technique for a nearly real-time
wireless image observation application service. The main idea
of this work is the wireless image observation where the
camera image of the remote real situation is obtained instead
of the conventional limited survey of sensing information.
This concept is very much useful in security applications.
When anyone wants to observe the situation in the remote
area of the building for security reason or something, they
will use USB camera and to identify any person entering into
the confidential zone, use PIR sensor. The PIR sensor senses
the human movement and sends the logic signal to the
controller. Then the controller triggers the USB camera to
click the photo. Then the photo was stored in the internal SD
card of the system. Here in this paper, we are incorporating
the IoT concept in this paper that the taken snapshot images
were sent to the predefined web server using the Wi-Fi
module and also sent an alert E-mail to the user regarding
this. To do this paper we are using the Raspberry Pi 3 board
as a core, which is the advanced version of Pi 2 board. The Pi
3 board has more internal memory, speed and internal
peripherals than the Pi 2 board. This Pi 3 board has in-built
Wi-Fi module.
Keywords: PIR Sensor, Wi-Fi, USB Camera, Raspberry Pi 3,
IoT Concept.
I. INTRODUCTION
The paper mainly focuses on Monitoring and Controlling
of multiple field equipments anywhere from within the
premises (Department) using Wi-Fi facility. Wi-Fi works with
no physical wired connection between sender and receiver by
using radio frequency (RF) technology, a frequency within
the electromagnetic spectrum associated with radio wave
propagation. Monitoring is on-line real-time monitoring based
on the machine status controlled the field equipments. User
does not need to go to near the equipment to operate or
monitor. If user wants to operate the equipment he/she will
operate from Wi-Fi based device like Phone, Tablet, Laptop
or any desktop pc having Wi-Fi utility. Also multiple
equipments status and updated data is available to the user. So
user gets data easily from the equipments on the Phone,
Tablet or Laptop. It is totally wireless communication so no
need of any wires complexity. This idea emerges from the
significance of fast and cost effective services required at the
customer’s site. User can operate multiple field equipments at
a time, as well as check the data from his place, due to that
labor cost is also saved. User can get the data easily on its
mobile. No need of any additional front end device. The
organization of this paper is as follows, Section II reviews
literature survey about LMS adaptive filter. SectionIII
describes our proposed-system architecture. SectionIV shows
the results and the last conclusion was elaborated in SectionV.
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
In this survey, we will discuss the data found by study and
analysis that is vital and have a crucial worth within the
contribution of the entire paper. It additionally provides some
basic information or theoretical base and is employed as a
foundation to with success deliver the goods the most
objectives. Most of the literatures are from the connected
articles, journals, books and former works of identical fields.
These literatures then compiled and use as a steerage to the
work of this paper.
A. Existing System
In the existing system, they were making use of the CC
camera all the time to observe the surrounding area and
capture those video and stored in the memory of the system.
For this method, we should require vast amount of memory to
store that entire video footage. And there is no use of the
footage when there is no unwanted scenario or situation
occurs. In this way more amount of memory was waste. To
overcome this drawback, we are proposing the system in
which the camera will take the photos of the surrounding if
any unwanted situation occurs.
B. Related Work
An area of application of Computer Vision, one that has
always fascinated people, concerns the capability of robots
and computers in general to determine, recognize and interact
with human counterparts. In this article we will take
advantage of the availability of cheap tools for computing and
image acquisition, like Raspberry Pi and his dedicated video
camera etc. There are many systems for remote monitoring

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and control designed as commercial products or experimental
research platforms. It is noticed that most of the research
carried out belongs to the following categories
 GSM-SMS protocols using GSM module individually or
in combination with internet Technologies.
 Internet based Monitoring using GPRS modems, Servers,
etc. with different approaches.
 Monitoring using Wireless Sensor Networks.
 Wireless Monitoring using Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Zigbee and
RF
 Applications have varied widely like Home Automation,
Security Systems, Bio-medical applications, Agriculture,
Environment, Reservoir, Bridge health monitoring, etc.
The system consists of home appliances, a cellular phone
and Bluetooth communication adapters for the appliances.
The communication adapter hardware consists of a 20MHz
16bit CPU, SRAM and a Bluetooth module. The
communication adapter board is connected to the home
appliance and to the cellular phone through serial ports. The
appliances can communicate with the cellular phone control
terminal via Bluetooth SPP [4]. (Sung-Nien Yu and Jen-Chieh
Cheng, 2005) proposed a wireless patient monitoring system
which integrates Bluetooth and WiFi wireless technologies.
The system consists of the mobile unit, which is set up on the operating system, or Linux OS, is a freely distributable, cross-
patient’s side to acquire the patient’s physiological signals, platform operating system based on Unix that can be installed
and the monitor units, which enable the medical personnel to
monitor the patient’s status remotely. The mobile unit is
based on AT89C51 microprocessor. The digitized vitalsign
signals are transmitted to the local monitor unit using a
Bluetooth dongle. Four kinds of monitor units, namely, local
monitor unit, a control center, mobile devices (personal
digital assistant; PDA), and a web page were designed to
communicate via the WiFi wireless technology [5].
(Flammini et al., 2007) suggested a novel architecture for
environmental tele-monitoring that relies on GSM for
sampling point delocalization, while on-field nodes
implement local subnets based on the DECT technology.
Local subnets contain two major blocks; Acquisition
Station (AS) where sensors and actuators are located and
Transmitting Module (TM), i.e., the module that handles
several measurement stations and sends data to the control
center (CC). Each AS acts as a data logger, storing in its
internal memory device field data; communications between
AS and TM are cyclic (round robin), with a cycle time of
about 1–10 min. [6]. (Yunseop Kim et al., 2008) described
details of the design and instrumentation of variable rate
irrigation, a wireless sensor network, and software for real-
time in-field sensing and control of a site-specific precision
linear-move irrigation system. Field conditions were site-
specifically monitored by six in-field sensor stations
distributed across the field based on a soil property map, and
periodically sampled and wirelessly transmitted to a base
station. [7]. (Bencini et al., 2009) developed state of the art communicates with each other by using the standard
WSN based system for monitoring a series of physiological
parameters in the vineyard to prevent plant vine diseases. The
different soil moistures in the same field is used to decide the network includes the sensor module, the message relay, the
correct amount of water for irrigation; sandy soils have very
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different behaviour to irrigation in respect to clayey ones;
water retention capacity is completely different and
measuring it exactly where it is needed can help in controlling
the irrigation system and saving water.
Monitoring air temperature and humidity in different parts
of a vine can help in preventing and fighting plants diseases,
reducing the amount of pesticides only when and where they
are necessary. Data coming from sensors are stored in a
database that can be queried by users everywhere in world,
only using a laptop or a PDA: the Smart User Interface also
allows to read and to analyze data in an easy way [8]. (Harms
et al., 2010) describe the emerging wireless sensor networks
(WSN) for autonomous Structural Health monitoring SHM
systems for bridges. In Smart Brick Network, the base station
and sensor nodes collect data from the onboard and external
sensors. The sensor nodes communicate their data from quasi-
static sensors, e.g., temperature sensors, strain gauges and
seismic detectors to the base station over the ZigBee
connection. The base station processes these data and
communicates them, along with any alerts generated, to a
number of destinations over the GSM/GPRS link provided by
the cellular phone infrastructure. [9].
1. LINUX Operating System: The Linux open source
on PCs, laptops, net books, mobile and tablet devices, video
game consoles, servers, supercomputers and more.
2. Qt for Embedded Linux: Qt for Embedded Linux is a
C++ framework for GUI and application development for
embedded devices. It runs on a variety of processors, usually
with Embedded Linux. Qt for Embedded Linux provides the
standard Qt API for embedded devices with a lightweight
window system.
3. OPEN CV: Open CV is an open source computer vision
library originally developed by Intel. It is free for commercial
and research use under a BSD (Berkeley Software
Distribution) license. The library is cross-platform, and runs
on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It focuses mainly
towards real-time image processing, as such, if it finds Intel’s
Integrated Performance Primitives on the system, it will use
these commercial optimized routines to accelerate itself.
C. Similar Papers
1. Design and Optimization of Wireless Remote
Monitoring and Control System Using the ZigBee
Protocol: This thesis presents the design and the optimization
of a wireless remote monitoring and control system utilizing
the ZigBee protocol. From the system architecture point of
view, the remote wireless monitoring and control system is
mainly combined by 3 parts, the wireless sensor network, the
message gateway and the web service. In order to increase the
system flexibility and the reconfigurability, each part
communication protocols. The wireless sensor network of the
system can be deployed in many different locations. The
control module and the network coordinator. The sensor
 Wireless Remote Monitoring System using Raspberry Pi and IOT Technology
module calculates the sensor information (e.g., temperature)
periodically and sends the message to the network
coordinator. If the radio link of the sensor module is not long enhancement framework is developed for the wireless sensor
enough to reach the coordinator, a message relay could be
utilized in between to forward the message to the destination. exceptions without interference to the sensor network
Meanwhile, the message relay can be utilized as a control
module as well. For example, when connected with the air
conditioning system (radiator or ventilation), the control
device can generate control signal to adjust the temperature
and the relative humidity. The network coordinator is the root
of the network. When the network coordinator receives the
sensor information from the sensor module, it forwards the
message to the connected gateway. On the other hand, the
coordinator also receives the control command from the
gateway. When the control command is received, the network
coordinator forwards the control command to the
corresponding control device of the wireless sensor network
to execute the command.
Generally speaking, it is the wireless sensor network part very easy, reliable, secure, fast and wireless solution.
provides the sensor information and executes the control
commands in the system. The gateway works as a translator
and synchronizer between the wireless sensor network and the
web service. It communicates with the wireless sensor
network via the connection of the network coordinator. When
receiving the sensor information from the wireless sensor
network, the gateway forwards the message to the web
service through the Internet. On the other hand, the gateway
also receives control commands from the web service. When
the gateway receives the control command from the web
service, it forwards the command to the network coordinator
of the wireless sensor network. Moreover, the gateway also
works as a local monitoring and control agent. The gateway
can be utilized to monitor and control the local sensor
network without login to the web service. During the network
deployment, the gateway needs to be equipped for each
wireless sensor network. Different gateways can
communicate with the web service via the Internet at the same
time. The web service contains the sensor information
uploaded from different locations. When the control
command is received from the user configuration, the web
service forwards the control command to the correct local
server. From the user point of view, the web service is a
website which can be accessed by a normal web browser.
Users can register the website to apply for monitoring and
control privilege.
The monitoring function provides the graphical presentation
of the sensor information from different locations. The control
function of the system includes the ON/OFF control,
temperature control and humidity control. In order to increase
the system reliability, extra optimizations are developed in
different parts of the system. In the wireless sensor network,
the power consumption of the battery powered sensor module
is optimized. A method is discovered to manage the network
topology and the message forwarding pattern. Moreover, an
alternative routing algorithm is designed which could be
utilized by the coordinator to communicated with the sensor
network. This method is verified to be much more efficient
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than the original algorithm utilized by the sensor network.
Finally, a general purpose communication reliability
network. It helps the wireless sensor network to handle the
applications. In the gateway part, the Internet connection
status is checked all the time. When the Internet connection is
broken, sensor messages sent from the coordinators are
buffered in the gateway to avoid the message lost.
2. Wi-Fi based Monitoring and Controlling of Embedded
System: This paper presents the design and prototype
implementation of new Wi-Fi technology based monitoring
and controlling the field equipments or machines using
Phone, Tablet Laptop or any desktop pc having Wi-Fi utility
with IEEE 802.11b, g and n standards. The proposed system
is divided into two parts for better implementation; the first
part is monitoring the embedded system (field equipments)
data and in second part controlling the field equipments. It is
III. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
Security is the major part of home automation systems
for the people. With the development of network and
automatic control technology, a home security monitoring and
alarming system becomes more and more practicable today.
In this paper we have proposed simple, low cost, low power
consumption and a novel method. In the proposed system, we
are saving more amount of memory by taking the photos only
in suspicious situation only. To detect that situation of any
stranger entered into the security zone, we are going to use
PIR sensor. The sensor generates the high logic in case of
human moved in the surroundings and sends that signal to the
controller to trigger the camera. The camera captured images
are sent over the web server by using the internal WI-FI
module of the Raspberry Pi 3 board and also sent an alert E-
mail to the user regarding this. The scope of study which is
needed for the completion of this paper involves the following
criteria:
 Study on Raspberry Pi processor
 Architecture of Raspberry Pi processor knowledge
 Python programming in C language.
 The circuitry and devices that is needed to construct the
devices and establish the necessary communication
between the devices.
 The study of PIR sensor interfacing with processor.
Fig.1. Proposed system block diagram.
A. Working
The main idea of this work is the wireless image
observation where the camera image of the remote real
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situation is obtained instead of the conventional limited
survey of sensing information as shown in Fig.1. This concept
is very much useful in security applications. To sense the
human moment in the confidential zone, we are using the PIR
sensor. When a warm body like a human or animal passes by,
it first intercepts one half of the PIR sensor, which causes
a positive differential change between the two halves.
Whenever the PIR sensor activates, the output pin which is
interfaced to the GPIO pin of the Raspberry Pi board. Then
the Raspberry Pi board triggers the USB camera and takes the
snapshot of that area, in which the face of that human may
exist. Then the image was sent to the web server through the
Wi-Fi module in-built in the Raspberry Pi 3 board. Besides
that an E-mail also sent to the pre-defined mail ID to inform
this human detection in the confidential zone.
IV. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
The implementation of realization of “Wireless Remote
Monitoring system using Raspberry Pi and IOT technology”
is done successfully as shown in Figs.2 to 5. The
communication is properly done without any interference
between different modules in the design. Design is done to
meet all the specifications and requirements.
Fig.2. Proposed system prototype.
Fig.3. PIR sensor is in off condition.
Fig.4. Monitored data sent to mail.
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Fig.5. Monitoring data updated to server.
V. CONCLUSION & FUTURE SCOPE
In this paper, we proposed a system low cost, secure,
accessible, auto configurable, wireless controlled solution.
The approach discussed in the paper is novel and has
achieved the target to control field appliances using the Wi-Fi
technology to connect system parts, satisfying user needs and
requirements. Wi-Fi technology capable solution has proved
to be controlled field equipment data security and is cost
effective as compared to the previously existing systems.
Finally, the proposed system is better from the scalability and
flexibility point of view than the commercially available field
equipment systems. In future, we can arrange a stepper motor
to the USB camera and we can rotate the USB camera angle
depends upon which side of the PIR sensor is detected. We
can place multiple PIR sensors at different sides, but we can
use only one USB camera and using this with stepper motor,
we can take snap shot from any side.
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Author’s Profile:
Mr. G. Arunsagar has completed his B.Tech
in ECE Department from Kakinada Institute of
Engineering and Technology-II, JNTU
Kakinada. Presently he is pursuing his Masters
in Embedded Systems(ES) in Kakinada
Institute of Engineering and Techology-II,
Kakinada, India.
Ms. P.Satyavani has completed B.Tech (EIE)
from Pondicherry Engineering College and
M.Tech (Embedded Systems) from R.R.S
college of Engineering and Technology. She
is having 4 years of experience in Academic,
Currently working as Assistant Prof at
Kakinada Institute of Engineering and Techology-II,
Kakinada, India.

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