SnowTrackr

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  Arduino Setup

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  UI Example

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  OpenCV Image Processing

Inspiration

Originally we wanted to create a snow day predictor for high school students and this led to the idea of creating a snow level tracker that could help inform municipalities and road maintenance companies which regions of the city need snowplowing urgently.

What it does

We wanted to create a tool that notifies city workers and snow maintenance crews about snow conditions outside. We designed a box that has a camera and force and temperature sensor that determines if there was a significant amount of snow and the type of snow which would then send a text to city workers/road maintenance workers.

How I built it

• OpenCV to determine amount of snow in box
• Arduino for the temperature and force sensors
• Node Red to bring everything together
• Twilio API
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Challenges I ran into

• communication between Arduino and program
• setting up camera for OpenCV
• using Node Red to bring together all elements

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• able to create a working demo
• using Arduino/OpenCV to gather information

What I learned

• OpenCV libraries for Python
• Node-Red
• using Arduino hardware

What's next for Snow Trackr Tool

• use more APIs to send notifications on different platforms to users
• have lights/sounds to notify users of snow levels
• utilizing UI to get user input

Built With

• arduino
• c++
• node-red
• opencv
• python
• twilio