Home Surveillance System

Our proposed project, Home Surveillance System includes, Home Surveillance System using Raspberry Pi and Webcam. Surveillance is becoming a need in any public or private area to cope up with increasing number of threats starting from burglary, robbery to terrorist activities. The traditional methods for monitoring are commonly confined in the use of webcam or wireless sensor network (WSN). These two techniques serve the purpose in different ways. Webcam help in visual monitoring of target area whereas Raspberry Pi helps in processing image captured by Raspberry Pi from the environment. In this project we incorporate advantages of both technologies to build up a smart surveillance system. We have proposed a home surveillance system based on internet of things domain that identifies movement of human beings in target area and keep the visual evidence of the movement with the help of the camera by sending the alert message on the android application of the owners mobile phone. This is an event based system, thus, substitutes the need for continuous monitoring of the area. A prototype application is deployed in locker room of home to evaluate some preliminary functionalities of the application.