A Mobile-sensor-cloud Based System To Safeguard Pilgrims Through Smart Environment With Raspberry Pi

The smart environment at holy places integrates various intelligent devices, infrastructures, and services to monitor and control pilgrims’ activities with efficiency. Smart pilgrim management requires aggregation of surrounding informatics for sustainable development of pilgrimage tourism. Some conventional sensing techniques, such as sensor networks are used to gather real-time data. The management of a large congregation is a primary factor in ensuring human safety.
In this project, we investigate how the sensor, mobile, and cloud technologies can be coupled together to address the pilgrim’s safety, especially sensing, storing and analyzing the enormous number of pilgrims’ whereabouts information in the smart environment. The project consists of Raspberry pi. RFID reader, temperature sensor, Humidity Sensor, Rain drop sensor, GPS, and LCD. Collected sensor data give to Raspberry pi and data is send to the cloud server.
The existing solutions require a tag to track pilgrims. These tags need expensive sensors to detect them which results in high infrastructure cost. We develop a portable sensing system, named Smart Pilgrim, which uses pilgrims’ smartphone whenever possible instead of tags. We send the pilgrim data to the cloud server. The system developed is cost-efficient, and will be helpful in congregation management.