An Internet of Things Based Smart Surveillance and Monitoring System using Arduino

Nowadays security is a major concern and it is growing rapidly. It is important for all to save their property, documents, money and other important things. With the growth of technology, the methodologies used by criminals are equally improved. Therefore, it is important to improve necessary surveillance techniques with the global change. The latest and effective technology used against the robbery and theft are video surveillance and monitoring system. But the cost of installation and maintenance of these systems becomes impossible for some people to afford. Arduino Mega 2560 is a micro controller board that has the capability to become a camera system when its own mini module known as Arducam gets attached to it. Instead of implementing various complex algorithms, a new and effective methodology has been developed for motion detection which is to use Pyroelectric infrared (PIR) sensors. Whenever the motion is detected by the PIR sensor, it captures the image with the help of connected Arducam and sends the push message to android using Firebase API. Further the user can control the arduino from the internet using the Near Bus concept (Rather than the customary idea of “associate” a remote gadget to the cloud (to control it), the Near Bus system “maps” the gadget into the cloud, completing a reflecting (or replication) of little piece of the miniaturized scale controller's memory into the cloud memory
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. By using this methodology, cost of installation can be reduced and it is energy efficient system.