I made a homemade wildlife detection system.

Using materials I had at home.

For Project one (Project given by HOWEST)

In on the following link you will find a short video i made for this project:

Supplies

The tools you will require are:

For Supplies and cost (at time of making this) see attached files.

Step 1: Making the Custom Dataset

You can make your own free (at time of making) dataset on Roboflow by creating your own account.

You can visit the dataset I have made using the folowing link:

https://universe.roboflow.com/project-one-wildlife-monitoring-system/project-one-wildlife-system-lsden

I generated my AI using YOLOv8.

But at time of release there will most likely be better models

For this you will need to get a casing (for waterproofnes) I used an Halogen floadlight.

A PIR sensor was used for power consumption reduction.

A battery so that you can power everything and place it in the wild.

For the battery it is also IMPORTANT that u use a voltage regulator

for regulating the correct voltage to the components.

(Make sure the raspberry pi gets 5.5V and the PIR 3.3V you can check this by using a Volt meter or Multimeter)

Of course i used a raspberry pi 5 to be able to send the footage to my computer via a network.

After this I took the correct measurements of the casing and the components

and made a fitting 3D print using a 3D printer for inside the casing.

The code I used for this part u can find in the folowing file (its in python).

The biggest part of making the server part and LED/Buzzer part is the coding wich you can find in the following files:

Then just assemble everything