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.
- OpenCV to determine amount of snow in box
- Arduino with temperature and force sensors
- Node Red to bring everything together
- Twilio API
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript for frontend
- Communication between Arduino and program
- Setting up camera for OpenCV
- Using Node Red to bring together hardware, API's, & online services.
- Use more API's to send notifications on different platforms to users
- Have lights/sound to create a buzzer to notify users of snow levels
- Utilizing UI to get user input