Robotex Turkey — Smart Security Glasses

From idea to working prototype in 6 days

For Robotex Turkey 2022, our team of high school students and I went from choosing the idea to designing the glasses, building the hardware and software, training the model and setting up the entire system end to end in just 6 days.

The idea

Spot threats that security staff might miss with a wearable device: glasses that see everything the wearer sees and automatically alert the right unit when something dangerous happens.

How it works

1. Capture: An ESP32-CAM built into the glasses we designed streams the camera image to the cloud.
2. Threat detection: In the cloud, an image-processing model we trained ourselves detects threats such as guns and knives.
3. Recognition: Faces in the image are matched against our suspect database.
4. Instant alert: When a threat or a suspect is detected, the system collects a snapshot, a 5-10 second video clip and the location, and sends them to the relevant unit.

My role

As the team's consultant and software developer, I designed the system architecture and built the device-to-cloud image pipeline, model training and alert flow together with the students. To ship a working product in so little time, we split the work into small, testable pieces and aimed for a working build at the end of every day.

Result

The project won 2nd place in the Software Technologies track of the Entrepreneurship category at Robotex Turkey 2022.