PersonalizedGreeter

A greeting device that welcomes your friends by name the first time it sees them!

Setup

• Requires Raspberry pi with raspbian jessie OS
• Follow all steps listed in the environment_setup/raspberry_pi_setup.sh
• Setup a Redis on Google compute engine
• In your virtual environment run the following command after cloning the repo: pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Current Functionality

• Greet person by name after detecting their face in a frame of the continuous video stream
• Greet with joke/fact option
• Include Seasonal greetings

Future Functionality

• Personal recorded greetings for specific people
• Walk up music for specific people
  • Prompt people to pick their walk up music
• Group names for when it detects a set of people that associate to one name

Technology Leveraged

• AWS Rekognition
• AWS Polly
• Raspberry pi
• GCP Compute Engine + Redis

Materials Used

• Raspberry Pi 3B [$30]
• 5V 2.5A Switching Power Supply with 20AWG MicroUSB cable [$7.50]
• 32GB Class 10 SD card [$5]
• Raspberry Pi case base [$5]
• Mini external USB stereo speaker [$12.50]
• Raspberry Pi Camera Board v2 [$29.95]

Overall Cost

$89.95 - Honestly not a bad price for a prototype

Overview of Application Architecture

Greeter in action!

Personalized Greeter Video Demo