An intelligent surveillance with cloud storage for home security

Abstract

In the present days, mobile devices like smart phones and iPads are being used to handle daily tasks that traditional desktop and laptop computers once handled. Home automation can be defined as accessing or controlling many of our home appliances, security, climate, and video monitoring from a remote or centralized location. A home automation system allows us to check in on our home from a remote location, giving us true peace of mind. Some systems will let us interact with the home security system, providing the ability to arm and disarm our home remotely. Some complete home automation systems will alert us by phone, text or email if there is any unusual movements within our home. Cheaper rates of cameras and different accessible network technologies have made remote home monitoring more effective enabling us to control everything from our cell phone. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a home security system to detect an intruder at home when nobody is present. This low-cost security system uses a small Pyroelectric Infrared (PIR) module and a Infrared (IR) sensor, and is built around ARM7 microcontroller. Presence of individual is detected when the system senses the signal generated by many sensors. The system sends a message to the user through GSM modem after detecting the presence of unauthorized person. The user then monitors the intrusion from anywhere, on an Internet enabled device by using IP address of the installed IP webcam of mobile in home, and alerts the neighbors and police. The user can also save the images and record the videos, which can be stored in a public cloud for later use. Preparatory experiments have shown encouraging results.