I'm searching for possible solutions to build up an system which recognizes very fast motions above a sensor. Just imagine a scenario like a sensor which is facing to the top of the room and waiting for a person or object to jump over it. Or detecting a football passing the sensor with high speed. This means the interval of "change" will be very short. I'm aware that this is a typical light-barrier scenario. But i want to check out alternative ways to solve this.
The system should fullfill the following requirements:
must have:
- low latency
- low rate of "false positive" detections or error susceptibility
- small installation (hardware)
nice to have:
- no need for microcontroller programming by using an SDK/API or something similar
I'm facing to the direction of using light barriers in combination with Raspberry-PI or Arduino. But this would cause an additional implementation to build a bridge between my application (Unity3D) and the sensor.
Questions/Ideas:
Has anyone experience in using solutions like Leap-Motion or Intel RealSense for such a purpose ? As there are plenty sensors in these devices, maybe it would be an option to use only a specific part of them.
Would image processing (OpenCV) being abled to process such small events with an appropriate latency ?
What about using a smartphone with it's wide variety of integrated sensors ?
Are there maybe light barries or suitable sensors with an comfortable interface or API ?
I would really appreciate any kind of suggestions / thoughts about this topic
best regards and thanks in advance :-)
