so I'm creating a project where I will be monitoring how many people enter and exit a room, and at the end of the day will send a message to a phone stating how many people altogether after dividing the total by 2. I created a Twilio account. So what is the best board I should get?
p.s. Does anyone know the code to make it work without internet?
Thanks
Junebug:
I will be monitoring how many people enter and exit a room, and at the end of the day will send a message to a phone snip
I guess An Arduino UNO would be ok, it does not have much to do.
Look up "Arduino GSM shield", that would let you send SMS messages to your phone.
The difficult bit will be on deciding how you are going to count people and how accurate you want it to be.
Yours,
TonyWilk
Do a search on this site for "count people". That subject has been discussed many times.
groundFungus:
Do a search on this site for "count people". That subject has been discussed many times.
And IIRC, not with much success.
I wonder if this would be more suited to a camera and complex image recognition software - which would be well beyond the capability of an Arduino.
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Robin2:
I wonder if this would be more suited to a camera and complex image recognition software
I think so - that's a tried and proven way of counting people entering a room, and a pretty reliable way at that.
Eyes + brain.
That setup can even easily distinguish between entering/exiting so you don't even have to divide by two at the end of the day.
Robin2:
I wonder if this would be more suited to a camera and complex image recognition software
Yeh, all the commercial systems are vision and/or thermal now.
You've probably heard of Flir (those nice thermal imaging cameras)... http://www.brickstream.com/
Yours,
TonyWilk