An IoT Based Approach to Smart Surveillance System

Security is an essential aspect for an individual or an organisation. Public places like institutions, organisations, banks, parks, etc or even homes need to be guarded to prevent theft or an attack. It is impossible for a single guard to man all the probable locations of intrusions at the same time for 24 hours and adding multiple guards will increase operational costs thereby adding financial burden on institutions. CCTVs are a static mode of surveillance as they are immovable and it needs multiple devices to be set up to completely cover an area. We aim to provide a solution by developing an IoT based Smart Surveillance System. This system consists of a robot with wheels attached which makes it mobile in nature and has an ultrasonic sensor mounted for object detection and the components are controlled by Arduino UNO. Also the robot has a camera mounted on top for Face Detection and the camera is controlled by Raspberry Pi. The system displays a live video feed and also notifies the user if a face is detected on the video feed, by raising an alarm and also on registered email along with the last captured frame. Thus, our system will help in safeguarding important places with minimal effort and will provide timely updates.