Economic Home Security System

Description

This was my senior design capstone project.

Motivation

With approximately 2.5 million burglaries per year, home security solutions have become necessary in order to protect your home from intruders. While there has been rapid growth and development within the home security sector, many of the solutions are often unaffordable or require large investments in redundant technology from clients. In addition many existing products require you to use their proprietary cloud technology, which is a security vulnerability itself.

High Level Overview

We will utilize multiple unused smartphone camera feeds to detect motion. Once motion is detected in any of the client’s camera feeds, we send the client a notification with a screenshot of the motion that was detected if deemed a threat. Upon opening the notification, the client is given an option to view and delete the clip. If the event is considered to be a home intrusion, our server generates an incident report containing time of occurrence and video footage of the entire time frame of the event. These incidents are then stored and made available for consumption on our client facing web application.

Lessons Learnt

I learnt a lot about WebRTC, a video streaming protocol that a lot of todays video calls and streaming are based off. I also used tensor flow library/framework for image detection on the front end.

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