Security System Using Raspberry pi and ArduCam 16MP Autofocus

Abdulrahman
16 Aug 2022
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In this tutorial, it is demonstrated how to use raspberry pi and ultrasonic sensor to build a security system

Components Required

Hardware Connection

Wiring

There are 4 pins in Ultrasonic Sensor that must be connected:

VCC to +5v
Trig to GPIO 21
Echo to GPIO 20 & to GND ( with 2 resistors 220 ohm)
GND to GND

Note: Use 1 resistor to connect Echo to raspberry pi and another resistor to connect it to ground

Software Requirements

After doing the hardware connection and setting up your raspberry pi. There are some Libraries need to be downloaded to use the camera.

Camera software and drivers

Note: if the camera does not work after downloading, please run

sudo apt-get update

and

sudo apt-get upgrade

then

sudo reboot

Next, we download the Picamera2 Library which is is the libcamera-based replacement for Picamera which was a Python interface to the Raspberry Pi's legacy camera stack. Picamera2 also presents an easy to use Python API.

All the necessary packages can now be installed via apt and pip3, so the following should suffice. First, please run:

sudo apt install -y python3-libcamera python3-kms++

sudo apt install -y python3-prctl libatlas-base-dev ffmpeg libopenjp2-7 python3-pip

pip3 install numpy --upgrade

NOGUI=1 pip3 install git+https://github.com/raspberrypi/picamera2.git

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Now, run

sudo reboot

Coding

open python software in your Raspberry pi and run the following code:

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO

import time

from picamera2 import Picamera2

from time import sleep

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)

TRIG = 21

ECHO = 20

i= 0

camera = Picamera2()

while True:

    print("Distance Check")

    GPIO.setup(TRIG, GPIO.OUT)

    GPIO.setup(ECHO, GPIO.IN)

    GPIO.output(TRIG, False)

    print("Calming Down")

    time.sleep(0.2)

    GPIO.output(TRIG, True)

    time.sleep(0.00001)

    GPIO.output(TRIG, False)

    while GPIO.input(ECHO) == 0:

        pulse_start = time.time()

    while GPIO.input(ECHO) == 1:

        pulse_end = time.time()

    pulse_duration = pulse_end - pulse_start

    distance = pulse_duration * 17150

    distance = round(distance, 2)

    print("distance:", distance, "cm")

    time.sleep(2)
    if 0 &lt; distance &lt; 40:

        camera.start()

        i=i+1

        sleep(2)

        camera.capture_file(&quot;image%s.jpg&quot; %i)

        camera.stop()

    time.sleep(2)

after running the code, the camera will take a picture whenever the sensor detect an object in the range specified in the code. All pictures will be sent to the desktop

Thank You

Thanks for going through this tutorial. If you have any technical inquiries, please ask in the comment section.

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