Motion and Movement Detection for DIY Home Security System

Smart home security becomes necessary due to an increasing level of house thievery or home security breach. Previous supporting security system such as CCTV is not enough to support home security. Such system can only focus on monitoring a limited area where it is installed and it is high cost for personal use. This paper presents an Internet of Thing (IoT) system to support home security via remote and timely manner monitoring based on motion and movement detection. The IoT system uses a wireless point to multipoint technique within a node sensor (motion detector) that connects to a microcontroller. Passive Infrared (PIR) and Accelerometer GY-61 are used as the sensor to perform the detection. A web-based dashboard is then deployed to display the monitoring result in timely manner. It receives data from two (2) node sensors that is transmitted via Adafruit server. A Do-It-Yourself (DIY) sensor is then developed. Simulation shows that the sensor system works very well as it is able to detect any object within certain range and any movement of the door and window. The system is one of the practical smart home security solutions that is able to perform timely manner home monitoring based on motion and movement detection.