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Pi IoT - Smarter Spaces - Remote Horse Feeder System

jomoenginer

OVERVIEW


I would like to propose my project for the Pi IoT – Smarter Spaces with Raspberry Pi 3 contest as a Remote Horse Feeder System (a.k.a. Smart Horse Stall) utilizing a Raspberry Pi 3 as the home (main) control unit (gateway) and a Raspberry Pi B+ as the stall (remote) controller for the feeder system and environment monitor unit. This is a system that has sensors located in the horse stall that indicate when a horse is in his stall ready to be fed which will trigger a PIR sensor sending a signal to the main controller unit triggering a visual and audio alert (perhaps and email notice of the event). The system shall also provide the ability for the user to program a feeding schedule to automate the feeding time as well as monitor the feed usage on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. The system shall have a remote based feature with camera in the home unit and the stall unit with audio so the user can interact with the horse(s) from the home unit. The stall system shall control a motorized feeder system that dispenses the appropriate amount of horse feed at the appropriate automatically at a preprogrammed time or via a manual over ride if needed. Also, the stall system shall monitor the amount of available feed used and shall notify the user if the feed has reached the minimum on hand amount that was preprogrammed into the system. The stall system shall have sensors that will monitor the temperature, humidity and condition of the stall which will be displayed on the home unit LCD display. Optimistically the Horse Feeder system shall provide Cloud based access to remotely monitor the system as a monitoring option when there is no access to the home unit. The motivation for this was from my father in-law who is getting older and can not take care of his horses like he used to and this is intended to allow him to keep in contact with his horses when he is not able to go outside to do so.

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

 

Home (main) unit:

Raspberry Pi 3

8 MP Camera (Indoor)

Raspberry Pi LCD 7” Display

EnOcean Pi

 

 

Stall (Remote) unit

Raspberry Pi B+

Pi Noir Camera (outdoor)

Sense Hat

EnOcean Sensor Kit

Pi Rack (To connect sensor Kits)

PiFace Digital 2

WiFi Dongle for Raspberry Pi B+

 

 

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

 

Embedded Linux

OpenHab (will be considered)

Python

C++,Java, JS

Node,js

BlueZ

MQTT

Android / IOS (Opportunistic)

 

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