Retail Footfall Camera Kit v11 — Raspberry Pi 5 Robot with AI Task Planner

Every part needed, pre-tested for compatibility, with an AI build companion trained on this exact project. Shipped from Bengaluru in 3-5 days.

Step into the convergence of physical robotics and large language models. This kit empowers you to build a mobile robot that receives a high-level retail goal — like "count the footfall near the entrance from 2 PM to 4 PM" — and autonomously decomposes it into navigational and sensory sub-tasks using an on-board LLM planner before executing them through a symbolic planner on the Raspberry Pi 5. The result is a self-contained, edge-AI footfall camera that brings real-time retail analytics to life.

What You'll Build

You'll assemble a four-wheeled robot chassis driven by a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB, equipped with a Pi Camera Module 3 and a 512GB NVMe SSD for fast data logging. The on-board LLM translates natural-language instructions into a sequence of waypoints, camera triggers, and counting operations. The symbolic planner then issues motor commands through the Cytron driver, moves the robot to vantage points, captures images, and runs lightweight computer vision to count people — all without cloud connectivity. Use it to generate hourly footfall heatmaps, compare store zones, or track conversion funnels.

What You'll Learn

• Deploying and prompting a quantized LLM on a Raspberry Pi 5 for goal decomposition
• Implementing a symbolic planner that translates sub-tasks into motor and camera actions
• Interfacing DC motors and encoder feedback via Cytron motor driver
• Real-time people detection and counting with Pi Camera Module 3

Kit Contents

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Who This Kit Is For

Designed for B.Tech students in CSE, ECE, or AI streams at IITs, NITs, VIT, or BITS Pilani who want a tangible robotics project that merges LLMs with edge hardware. It's also an ideal entry for Smart India Hackathon teams building retail-tech prototypes, and for ATL tinkering labs ready to move beyond basic sensors into autonomous AI systems.

Built and Backed by Compoden

Every Compoden kit ships with an AI build companion trained on this exact project — accessible via a QR code on the box, with WhatsApp and email backup. We've spent 10 years building projects for makers, schools, and institutions across India. If a part fails because of a manufacturing defect, replace it free within 7 days.