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Metro Manila, Philippines

Chapter I

Introduction

In today’s traffic jam problem in the Philippines, people become more

agitated and irritated causing to violence and accidents, tends to be more

feasible in the streets. Being a defensive driver, not enough today anymore.

Drivers must be smart as well against crimes, accidents and even simple people

crossing the road illegally.

The past few weeks news about road accidents rampantly takes over the

news and many lives lost. Causes of the road accidents until now still on

investigating stage and collecting data to the accidents still limited and concrete

evidence to where not found and figuring the real situation occur. Answering the

faults if a human error or vehicle failure and when and how the accidents took

place.

Investigating of a situation that involved of a vehicular accident was

making a huge source of traffic because of the way of the investigator collecting

the data about the accident on both side and determining whose fault was made

and leaving the involved vehicles to the same spot where the accident occur and

needs some times to figure out and end result a traffic. Also, some petty crime

that occurred in public utility vehicles like snatching, holdup and other crime that

needs to determine or profiling of the thief was a huge problem in commuting in

public utility vehicles. Bombing now as a treat for the public the reported rate of

terrorism now upscaling and news of attacks by terrorists became rampant and

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their major target area where the public utility vehicles to send a scared tactics

and killing lives. Identifying of the terrorist and documenting the activities use as

deterrent of wrong doings.

Project Context

Video monitoring system, a type of monitoring system used to observe

and capturing video footages and broadcast to a private network of monitors for

real-time viewing and has a capacity to stored video footage to data storage. The

monitoring system primarily use for security purposes to monitor a remote area.

In the type of system components inevitable to use like cameras, wired

connection, large hardware storage and monitors to display the streaming videos

captured by cameras. The main function to review activities happened when the

video monitoring system set to start until the time when turn the project off.

Recognizing the identity of lawbreakers from the captured video footage and use

as deterrent for crime prevention.

A video monitoring project can make a good answer to the main problem

of vehicular accidents and crimes like be given video evidences to the

investigator or the owner of the vehicles about documenting the real situation

happens in the vehicle or surroundings of situation depends where the camera

focus on areas. Still the peripherals that consists to the type of project may head

to installing such large equipment’s to the vehicle that may use such large area

of the vehicle.

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The dashcam or dashboard camera, an onboard camera a device that can

help out to figure out and can be a deterrent when an accident or crime can

happen but the function of the dashcam in a way not handy of punctuality

because the main function was to monitor the things that happen in front or back

of the car depending where the user place the dashcam.

Purpose and Description

In the day, small single chip computers becoming more popular because

of low purchasing prices and the potential possibilities of making various types of

projects. Raspberry Pi a credit card sized computer, functions almost as a

computer. Raspberry Pi a simple circuit that run by an operating system like an

ordinary computer but smaller in size and components.

In the type of technology, the best medium for the portable video

monitoring system that focus for the vehicular uses.

The purpose of the project work to customize a wireless monitoring

system using the Raspberry Pi a single chip computer for vehicular surveillance.

The thesis goals to create and design a wireless monitoring system which

accessible by any type of devices thru a web browser that the both devices must

have connected to the same network. The gathered video footage can be easily

accessible and stored to a storage data device for observing and reviewing

purposes.

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Statement of the Problem

General Problem

Overall fatalities were caused by human error, traffic caused by

undisciplined jeepney, bus and taxi drivers that stop in the middle of the road to

load and unloading passengers. Accidents just worsen everything, affects time,

vehicle and most of all the risking of lifes. Investigating a road accident mostly

exert more time to analyzed by a traffic officer and investigating the situation to

determine the one who make the fault and the outcome of leaving the vehicles in

places where the accident occur and cause traffic. Documenting of actives

happened in the event of crime or accident necessary to ease the time of

investigation.

Road accidents and crimes, things that cannot predicts when can be

happen and a technology that can documented in a way that anyone can use in

easy way.

Specific Problems

1. How to determine the cause of an accident or crime in immediate time?

2. How to recognize the person that involved in road accident or crime?

a. Profiling (Face recognition)

b. Actual Footage

3. How to make a cheap but reliable video monitoring devices?

4. How to make an easy to use and set up video monitoring system?

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5. How to test and evaluate the efficiency of the proposed system based on the

needs of common operator of Public Utility Vehicles (PUJs) and also the private

people in terms of the following criteria:

5.1 Compatibility

5.2 Functionality

5.3 Maintainability

5.4 Portability

5.5 Reliability

5.6 Security

5.7 Usability

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Objectives of the Study

General Objective

The purpose of the presented project, to customize from a single board

computer and available generic computer peripherals, a cheap, flexible, open-

source, easy to deploy, use and relocate video-surveillance system that can

generate power for reliable use. A surveillance video monitoring system that

place into vehicles. The project should consist on a single- board microprocessor

connected to a commercially available USB web-cam running a custom-

developed program, and should process data in real-time, with a low frame-rate

requirement but presentable and clear video footage. New plug-ins, or

processing modules, should be easily developed and integrated - video

stabilization, time-lapse videos, video filters, or whatever else a programmer

needs or think of. The interface between the platform and the plug-in should be

easy to use in newly developed plug-ins.

The following characteristics can be aimed in the proposed project:

1. Low-Cost - The total cost of the system should be as low as possible, without

sacrificing good operational results.

2. Flexibility - The solution should be as flexible as possible using the common

types of hardware available in area that should be compatible to the system itself

and the source code.

3. Automatic - The system, both the platform and plug-ins, should fulfill the

premises with as little human intervention as possible.

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4. Portability – The can system worked in different operating system and different

devices without some compatibility issues that may occur.

5. Customizable – The peripherals that may use to the system, easily replicate,

change and upgrade without excessing more effort and consuming more time.

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Scope and Limitations

Scope

The proposed system focus to the implementation of Customizing

Vehicular Wireless Monitoring System that aimed for improving and adding a

security of a vehicle by using a real-time wireless monitoring system and can

access using web browser that connected to a local area network by accessing

the IP address of Raspberry Pi that work as a main board system. The project

gather video footage and save to a specific storage device for later reference.

The project a self-sufficient project because the power consumption can be

provided by a solar powered battery pack and in the type of power supply can

able to generate power to the project.

In the system, only covers the connection of wireless monitoring system

to a local area network if the monitoring system not be on the same network of

the devices that use to view the live streaming the outcome not be connected.

The application to use to watch the live streaming by a web browser, using

Firefox web browser for cellphone, tablet or laptop was the most compatible

browser to use because of being open source but a generic web browser

installed in phones already good to use.

Limitation

The limitation for the duration of a save video footage became depending

to the capacity of storage that the user wanted to save on. If the user wants to

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save a large amount of time for monitoring footage the user must provide a large

separate storage device.

The distance of a device that can access the monitoring project,

depending to what type of a network that there were connected. In the absence

of a local area network a cellphone tethering and portable hotspot can be used to

connect the monitoring project to the device but approximately 100 feet away

only the distance that a device can have access to the monitoring project.

The power supply that give to the system to work was depending on the

solar power bank capacity to provided power. The project sole dependability on

power consumption depends on how long the power bank can supply to last long

to run the system.

The area that the camera only can monitors limited depending to the setup

of the user. The length of the wire of the USB cameras that use sometimes long

only by a meter and that the only the camera can setup.

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Significance of the Study

Customizing Vehicular Wireless Monitoring System using Raspberry Pi, a

system that build from affordable peripherals that consist of three main parts

Raspberry Pi as core system, web-cam and solar powered battery bank for

power supply.

In the propose project the issues that present from other wired monitoring

system resolve especially about of being stationary of to a specific location and

placing the cameras for the right angle to capture a good resolution make not be

a problem because the project be a portable.

The power failure not a problem to work for the monitoring project

because the power supply to use in the project, solar powered battery bank can

handle electricity to run the project for hours and generate electricity through the

sun.

Upgrading and adding a camera not a reason be a costly like the

commercialize products in the markets because of the USB ports available in

Raspberry Pi the proponent can add a USB web-cam and not to buy another unit

like the only option when buying a commercialize monitoring cameras.

The use of proposed project make the diversity of purposes eliminated

and the proposed monitoring project work depending the on the needs of the

possible user.

The section shows a short description on a number of the importance of

the study about using wireless monitoring system operations.

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To the Car/Vehicle owner. The study brings help for the individual who

has car to establish a decent mean of security between the owner and the

vehicle in order for the services can be contributed to the people become more

effectively and quicker.

To the Community. The study brings assistance to the people of the

community by using the system as an information tool about video documenting

matters and more importantly as well as a good security tool between the

community and the police.

To the Proponents. The study aids for the proponents by using the

project as a reference of building other mobile security systems. The study

definitely can become a useful reference for personal security improvement in

the field of computer technology in the era.

To the Future Researchers. The study gives benefit to the future

researchers to have an initial idea on what topic to choose and a guide as the

research includes important knowledge on developing an application system.

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Educational Significance. The study helps the students to attain more

knowledge regarding to the subject matter of the study and utilize the knowledge

learnt as a reference in the future.

Technological Significance. The study utilized technological information

and tools in the field of computer science in order to be developed and by doing

so, the information included in the study also serves as a contribution to the

technological advancement of humankind.

Environmental Significance. The study has been made in order to help

the community decrease technological waste incidents which can be helpful to

the environment to reduce the usual carbon footprint amount that a burning

establishment and possessions emit.

Socioeconomic Significance. The study helps the people of the

community to have a reliable communication so that property loss to the

economy reduce of extra communication gadgets that causing such more

expenses and spending in projects that can help more in people in community.

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