A Web-Based Intelligent Spybot

Robots have been making inroads to human life in almost all spheres. Spybots can be immensely useful for unmanned surveillance and covert spying operations. If online streaming of the spied data can be made feasible, that would be an added advantage. In this paper, we propose an unmanned Spybot that can be controlled remotely from web-page based commands, using a WiFi network. It can also stream back the spied data, that could be video or images, over the WiFi network. A prototype Spybot is developed. Users can give the control instructions from a web-page. The WiFi module on board the Spybot receives these commands from the web-page and passes those to the microcontroller. The microcontroller interprets the control commands, and generates control signals to operate the Spybot as per the user’s commands. The captured images and video data is sent back to a smartphone over WiFi network. Performance evaluation is carried out, to measure various limits of operation of the Spybot. The results are encouraging. The proposed Spybot can have potential applications for military, security forces and surveillance purposes.