Using the Security Camera System Based on Individually Maintained Computers for Homeland Security: The e-JIKEI Network Project

We have already started a project for creating a community security structure spread worldwide that uses individually maintained home computers connected to the Internet. We call this project "the e-JIKEI network project". JIKEI means "Vigilante" in Japanese. The basic concept of the project is that every individual person watches in and around his/her house using cheap cameras as his/her eyes, PC as his/her brain and Internet as his/her communication means by his/her own expense. In this paper, we discuss using the e-JIKEI project for construing homeland security infrastructure