What this book covers

Chapter 1, A Simple Smart Gardening System, begins with explaining how to build a simple smart gardening system with involved plant sensor devices and Arduino.

Chapter 2, A Smart Parking System, will teach you to build a smart parking system. Learn how to detect a car plate and to count the car parking duration. Various pattern recognition algorithms will be introduced to detect a car plate.

Chapter 3, Making Your Own Vending Machine, will help you build a simple vending machine, detecting a coin is an important part of the vending machine and building UI (User Interface) for the vending machine is explored.

Chapter 4, A Smart Digital Advertising Dashboard, teaches you to build a simple smart digital advertising which could detect people’s presence so the advertiser can obtain an effective report of how many people watch the ads display.

Chapter 5, A Smart Speaker Machine, will help you build a simple smart speaker machine. You will start to learn Amazon Echo and then build your own simple smart speaker machine.

Chapter 6, Autonomous Firefighter Robot, teaches you to build an autonomous robot which finds a fire source location and extinguish fires. You will also learn to find the fire source location and navigate to the source location.

Chapter 7, Multi-Robot Cooperation Using Swarm Intelligence, focuses on how to make transport cooperation among robots using swarm intelligence. You will also learn the concept of swarm intelligence so that you can implement it in among robots.

Appendix, Essential Hardware Components, covers mandatory hardware required for this book.