RESTful Motion Detection and Notification using IoT

Abstract

Individuals show immense interest in making the things around them smart by implementing new technologies. This paper mainly focuses on detection of motion in a particular area and if it is detected a notification will be sent to the person. In current implementation the PIR sensor is integrated to low-cost and Wi-Fi enabled NodeMCU Microcontroller in order to detect the motion. The NodeMCU posts the information to Thinger.io cloud which uses RESTful Programming Interface for easy integration of components. Pyroelectric Infrared (PIR) sensors are simple and most powerful people presence triggers. We also integrated IFTTT channel maker, a Web based service to thinger.io in order to get notifications when motion is detected. Here the PIR Sensor sends a signal to ESP 8266 if a motion is detected and now this information is uploaded on the thinger.io cloud and it is notified in IFTTT which is the HTTP Endpoint configuration to thinger.io cloud.