Surveillance and monitoring system using Raspberry Pi and SimpleCV

Surveillance and monitoring has become very important for security reasons these days. Residential areas, government organizations, commercial spaces, schools and hospitals, industries, banking and other challenging indoor and outdoor environments require high end surveillance systems, which are very expensive. This paper proposes the motion detection and tracking system for surveillance in this paper. The proposed system uses Raspberry Pi and computer vision using SimpleCV to detect moving objects in the surveillance area, switch on the lights to capture images and streams the camera feed online using MPJG Streamer, which can be viewed by any authorized person on the go.