Occupi

Room occupancy monitoring based on Raspberry Pi

Project Objectives

• Create deployable raspberry pi systems that can detect room occupancy
• Have each system provide a way to request occupancy statistics and in particular current status of the room.
• Expose a way to request that a particular Pi notify you when a room becomes free, and keep requests on a queue. For instance, when a group of people have to share a single washroom.

Stretch Goals

• Pi's monitor each other for resiliency
• Made data accessible to support security or energy auditing

Tasklist

• Build easy-to-use api classes for supported sensors
  • TSL2561 light level sensor
  • Others? (e.g. ir motion sensors)
• Develop way to determine occupancy status from sensors
• Build a low-energy monitoring script that can:
  • respond to occupancy status requests (slack app websocket implementation)
  • manage usage requests on a queue, notify users when room becomes free
  • log occupancy statistics