IoT based Home Security System

Due to increasing number of crime and burglary, the need of security system is very essential.
We need a security system that monitors the area throughout the time and reacts effectively to
the threat. We have lots of security systems in the market for both indoor and outdoor
applications such as ultrasonic detectors, CCTV, microwave detectors, photoelectric
detectors, infrared detectors etc. But these are all expensive, power consuming and complex.
I am suggesting a low cost, simple Intruder Alert System which uses a PIR motion detector
and PI camera.

In my project the system will detect the presence of Intruder and quickly alert the user by
sending him an alert mail or notification. The mail will also contain the Picture of the
Intruder, captured by Pi camera. Raspberry Pi is used to control the whole system. This
system can be installed at the main door of your home or office and you can monitor it from
anywhere in the world using your Email over internet. 

User Perspective

The system is intended to use in home, when people are away from home. It’s like a
surveillance system. User needs to implement the system near the main door of home or
office and make sure that the power supply is on to the system. Whenever a motion is
sensed, it automatically turn on the camera and take photos. The user can receive it as mail
notification along with attached photos.

Designer Perspective

This is a home security system using Raspberry Pi and PI Camera. A PIR sensor is used to
detect the presence of any person and a Pi Camera is used to capture the images when the
presence it detected. Whenever anyone or intruder comes in range of PIR sensor, PIR
Sensor triggers the Pi Camera through Raspberry Pi. Raspberry pi sends commands to Pi
camera to click the picture and save it. After it, Raspberry Pi creates a mail and sends it to the
defined mail address with recently clicked images. The mail contains a message and picture
of intruder as attachment.

As a designer
1. Need to design the circuit - need to connect Pi Camera module and PIR sensor
to Raspberry Pi 3. Pi Camera is connected at the camera slot of the Raspberry Pi
and PIR is connected to GPIO pin 18.  A LED is also connected to GPIO pin 17
through a 1k resistor.
2. Install , configure and enable Pi Camera
3. Install and configure software for sending mail (mailing module)
4. Link all these to trigger the Pi camera when motion is detected, then to invoke
mail module to send email with attachments.

Constraints

Cost : To implement this project we need different components

Raspberry Pi – Rs.2502/- – 34$
Adapter - Rs205/- - 2$
 Pi Camera -Rs. 650/- - 9$
USB Cable - Rs. 77/- - 2$
Other Accessories – Rs230/- 3$
The overall cost will be less than Rs. 4000/- ( 50$)

Implementation Time and Performance:

Once you have all the components it will take only few hours to implement the
system. The user will receive e mail with in seconds depending upon the bandwidth of the
WiFi connection.