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Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By : Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Book Image

Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By: Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

This Learning Path takes you on a journey in the world of robotics and teaches you all that you can achieve with Raspberry Pi and Python. It teaches you to harness the power of Python with the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Pi zero to build superlative automation systems that can transform your business. You will learn to create text classifiers, predict sentiment in words, and develop applications with the Tkinter library. Things will get more interesting when you build a human face detection and recognition system and a home automation system in Python, where different appliances are controlled using the Raspberry Pi. With such diverse robotics projects, you'll grasp the basics of robotics and its functions, and understand the integration of robotics with the IoT environment. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have covered everything from configuring a robotic controller, to creating a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. • Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition by Tim Cox, Dr. Steven Lawrence Fernandes • Python Programming with Raspberry Pi by Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor • Python Robotics Projects by Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Making an interactive door – answering robot


In the previous chapter we have used a PIR sensor to sense any human activity, however the problem with the sensor is, that no matter who comes or leaves it would deliver the same message. That basically means that even when you come home after a long day, it would end up asking the same question. Pretty dumb huh? 

So in this chapter we would use the previous repository and integrate the vision and the voice together to make an amazing duo. In this, the camera would identify who is on the gate and would recognize if it is a human and a stranger, if so then, it would deliver the message you intend to give. On the other hand if its you then it would simply let you pass with a simple greeting. However if the face is detected but not recognized then it would give a set of instructions to the person standing in-front of the camera. 

To implement it all you need to do is to set up a camera on the gate of your door along with the PIR. The PIR is basically...