Title

Project PatrolMATE (Patrol Monitoring Automation Technology Enforcer): School

monitoring robot for climate conditions

Summary

Climate change is one of the calamities that gets worse as time goes on, always

changing our weather, temperature, and melting of our polar region is one of its

massive effects. With these drastic effects just around the corner, that’s when we

got the idea of making our project, entitled PatrolMATE, a robot patrol car that can

navigate around easily, detect the temperature and humidity in the air, check for

darkness or lightness of the environment, and also have the ability to notify people

around it if a weather change is happening by making a buzzing sound that can

easily be heard by a person whether it be a student, teacher or a school staff.

Background and Problem

In the current situation, climate change has been one of the most discussed

issues in our world. This problem causes changes in weather into extreme weather

patterns which can negatively harm our environment and as well as our health. It

affects our environment in a way that it can cause more frequent storms, heat

waves, rising in sea level, melting of glaciers and warmer seaoceans. On the other

hand, this affects our health in a way that it can cause extreme and dangerous

heat wave waves and storms, which is what we are facing right now.

Moreover, many students are complaining due to extreme heat in their

classrooms. Because of this, schools are now forced to cancel face-to-face classes

and implement a half-day session and imposed a modular distance learning (MDL)

for students due to extreme heat during the summer months. That's why we
conducted this project, namely PatrolMAN, to help the schools assess this problem

by having a robot companion.

In addition, this project PatrolMATE is composed of DHT11, LCD Display,

LDR sensor module, ultrasonic module, servo motor which will controls the

movement of the ultrasonic module, DC Motors, Tank crawler chassis wheels which

enable the project to climb and up the stairs, and an Arduino uno which will act as

the brain that will control the functioning of the components mentioned above. This

project is manually controlled using the IoT NodeMCU which enables the project to

have a wireless connection or connectivity, making the patrol robot an efficient and

versatile solution for monitoring the climate or weather conditions in a school.

Furthermore, this project will benefit the following; first, the schools, as they

will have a robot companion that can monitor the weather conditions and can warn

them in case something will happen. Secondly, teachers and students, this project

can help them secure their safety. And lastly, future researchers, as this project,

can inspire them to do similar studies and make this as a reference.

Proposed Solution to the Problem Presented:

Our project named Project PatrolMATE goal is to resolve the problem

that climate change is giving inside the school areas and even for the students, and

school staff like the teachers. Climate change is causing us a lot of problems,

especially inside the school where students really feel the intense effect of this and

that’s why we thought about Project PatrolMATE. Our project can help in sort of

ways.

First off, our Project PatrolMATE can detect the current temperature

during a specific time. This project can tell whether it’s cold or hot and then alert

the people or to be specific the students and the school staff inside the school if the
current temperature is safe or not safe. Moreover, it can also help detect the

humidity in the air, indicating if it is going to rain, or if there is going to be a mist

or fog in the surroundings of a place.

Temperature and humidity will be shown through an LCD Monitor

connected to a DHT11 Sensor which gives the data about the detected temperature

and the humidity of the air around the robots’ surroundings. The LCD Monitor will

help the data to be seen or recognized by the students or school staff that want to

know the temperature and humidity state.

Our project PatrolMATE does not only detect the temperature and humidity

but also detects or measures the presence or how intense the light in the sky. This

will be a help because it can help check if it’s going to rain by detecting how bright

or dim the sky is.

This project will be manually controlled and will be live streaming through

the connection of a smartphone to see where the robot needs to go. The Ultrasonic

Module will be associated with the Servo Motor that will enable the Ultrasonic

module to move directions. Also for the connection, Iot NodeMCU will be used for

controlling the robot.

Table 1.

1. DHT11 ₱54.00

2. LCD Display ₱99.00

3. LDR Sensor Module ₱100.00

4. Ultrasonic Module ₱102.00

5. DC Motors and Tank Chassis Wheels ₱200.00-₱700.00

6. Arduino Uno ₱749.00

7. IoT NodeMCU ₱243.00

8. Servo Motor ₱56.00

Figure 1.

The Project PatrolMATE is manually controlled through the use of

smartphone which is connected to the IoT NodeMCU, then the other parts that is

necessary for this project is connected to the Arduino Uno that is the main system

of the bot.

References:
Haines, A., & Patz, J. A. (2004). Health effects of climate change. Jama, 291(1), 99-

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Karl, T. R., Melillo, J. M., & Peterson, T. C. (2009). Global climate change impacts

in the United States: a state of knowledge report from the US Global Change

Research Program. Cambridge University Press.

Wilby, R. L. (2007). A review of climate change impacts on the built environment.

Built environment, 33(1), 31-45.