Digital Border Surveillance System: Towards Illegal Migration and Trafficking Free Borders

A nation’s global security is significantly impacted by border security. A significant number of human and illegal items are trafficked between countries across borders, creating a source of concern in many nations. Avoiding tariff duties and the business of illegal goods are the common issues in ensuring border security. Traditional security forces are insufficient to deal with the intruders with their ever-changing ideas of intrusion. Therefore, this research proposed a digital border surveillance system to help the border security forces for enhancing the command and control of the borders. The proposed system utilized YOLOv7 architecture to detect movement in real-time and monitors the real-time movement of individuals in uniform, civilians (without uniform), and animals within the proximity of the responsible area as well as detects longitudinal movements through sensors. The system is also capable of sending different forms of notifications depending on the types of movements. Finally, the system showed an average success rate of 89% and 85% for sending alarms and notifications, respectively while detecting any movements.