Automated Surveillance Robots for Harsh Climatic Conditions like Siachen

Taking into consideration some geographical regions like Siachen with extremely harsh and diverse environmental conditions such as temperature ranging from -10 to -60 degrees, which result in a challenging human survival and surveillance. In this scenario, the automated surveillance robot will be considered as an efficient solution, which aims at continuous monitoring of the surrounding with least human interruption. Considering the recent developments in the surveillance robot systems, there is a necessity of developing a system which can do precise processing withstanding such harsh temperature ranges reducing the rate of soldier casualties. The proposed system implements continuous video based real time surveillance for robotic assembly made up of bullet proof and resistant material Kevlar, along with tungsten mesh for temperature regulation. With the successful communication establishment between Ground Communication Center (GCC) and the robot with a 360 degree rotating camera, the surveillance system operates in four phases: object detection (range, angle and GPS co-ordinates from the robot), object tracking and movement detection, object classification and report generation. With optimized use of resources, the increasing resource availability and load balancing of activities between Raspberry Pi and Arduino the system exhibits object tracking using co-ordinates in the frame using TensorFlow module, which can run on a low level microprocessor increasing the system's efficiency and reliability. With the reports generated consisting the assigned priorities and raised alarms, the GCC can decide further set of actions such as focusing on a particular region with suspicion having low priority assigned to it or physically deploying the soldiers for tackling the high priority situation. The hardware used involves the use of night vision Raspberry Pi camera module, GPS module, laser sensor for object detection and temperature sensors for temperature regulation. The optimized use of hardware ensures the efficient and cost effectiveness of the system. Considering the results generated from the test cases, the overall efficiency of the system comes out to be 90.27%. Thus, proposed system targets at increasing the range of surveillance with rotating camera replacing the direct exposure of the soldiers to such extreme environmental conditions with real time surveillance reducing the impacts of such conditions on soldiers' health. The results calculated from the performance metric analysis considering cost, time, efficiency and effectiveness of the system makes the system an efficient solution for the surveillance purpose reducing the rate of soldier casualties without any loss and hence can be deployed in the blind spot areas where direct human surveillance is not possible.