Remote Surveillance Vehicle

Project Cost: 9,100

Project Code: 1135

Description of the project:

This project is used for spying purposes. Remote Surveillance Vehicle is controlled by mobile or cellphone. In this project, the robot is controlled by a mobile phone that makes a call to the mobile phone attached to the robot. In the course of a call, if any button is pressed, a tone corresponding to the button pressed is heard at the other end of the call. This tone is called a “dual tone multiple-frequency” (DTMF) tone. The robot perceives this DTMF tone with the help of the phone stacked on the robot.

The received tone is processed by the microcontroller with the help of a DTMF decoder. The microcontroller then transmits the signal to the motor driver IC”s to operate the motors. The camera mounted on the robot will give detailed information about where the robot is and who is around. The signal is then transmitted to the observer via audio/video transmitter-receiver.

Description in detail:

On the robot, we have mounted a 12V battery as the power supply for the circuit and the motors. When the user calls the mobile which is mounted on the robot the call is received by auto-answer mode. As the call continues when the user presses a button on his handset the tone that is generated is decoded by the DTMF decoder and the command is passed to the microcontroller which is pre-programmed. The Microcontroller then passes the command to the motor driver ICs for motion.

Block Diagram of Remote Surveillance Vehicle:

You will get the following documents with this project:

1. Project Report in pdf format and in doc (word) format
2. Circuit diagram
3. PCB layout
4. Microcontroller program in assembly language
5. Hex file of the microcontroller code
6. Datasheets of all the components / ICs used in the project

Project Photographs:

Applications and Advantages of Remote Surveillance Vehicle:

1. This can be used as a Spy robot.
2. This robot also has a military application

Future Development:

1. We can monitor hazardous parameters like overheating, gas leakage
2. We can implement sms technology into this project

Video of the project: Remote Surveillance Vehicle using a microcontroller

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Questions and answers about this project:

Question: Are the Camera transmitter and receiver circuits built by you or are you using any of the available transmitters and receivers? Also, what is the range of this CCTV camera transmitter?

Answer: CCTV camera transmitter and receiver is not made by us. We are using the wireless camera which is available in market. We are using low-cost camera. Range of camera is 100 meters.

Question: Does this project use the same camera which is used in Drones?

Answer: We have used simple camera to reduce the cost, however many drones has high resolution and high range cameras.