Story

Hello,

Ideation

After a long time, I decided to post another project as I was really surprised by my success in my first project. I wanted to take things further and explore new human to machine interaction models in IoT space.

Hence, I came up with this project:

Short Blah Blah version for documenting project :-)

Problems that the POC Aims to Solve:

Switches are sometimes hard to reach, and many times one is left with the longing for a switch to be much closer to reach. Voice recognition to switch on/off an appliance is good, but not really okay as you are required to continuously address the system in your voice.

Sometimes a person just wishes for tactical feedback!

Solution:

Have 2 or more webcams around the room which keep monitoring the room.

Create a custom object (this can be anything custom designed to even one which is designed specifically for room aesthetics).

Have the system machine learn what a custom switch looks like, and let the location of the switch be decided by the user.

Have GPIO pins control relays which switch appliances on /off or interact with services.

Due to above solution, user is able to dynamically reconfigure physical location and services that the custom switches offer at the drop of a hat!

Training Method:

The system borrows from my old project which is accessible here Hence forth i have created custom programs and utils for: