Hi so I want to build a house security system for personal use.
I want to have a webcam or any kind of possible recording camera via USB or standard AV cables
being connected thru a device controlled by a arduino and a GSM module.
Basic task is to detect if door or any window from the house is opened (let's take only door as example)
if it gonna open while I'm not in the house (meaning while i activate the system) if the door going to open to take a picture, video or few frames per second and send the picture via GMS/Internet to a
Internet web site host Database or a 2nd GSM device.
I have some ideas using a Android device reading the video but that requires a device which will allow
COM communication for the arduino.
Any ideas or devices I can use, I focus on minimum budget as possible.
D.60
I'm working on the same thing .. I use processing to detect faces and save images , and I also use in TVout library to simulate the home screen to tell which door / window open
I'm working on the same thing .. I use processing to detect faces and save images , and I also use in TVout library to simulate the home screen to tell which door / window open
As I understand you use a Personal computer or laptop but i want to make a small system without using a big device for the cam.
D.60
Domino60:
As I understand you use a Personal computer or laptop but i want to make a small system without using a big device for the cam.
D.60
I use the computer only for the camera but I try as you to connect the camera to Arduino
I use the computer only for the camera but I try as you to connect the camera to Arduino
My idea is to use a android device, mobile phone, to connect the cam using a app and the arduino at the same time.
D.60
You can connect the phone with arduino via wifi, bluetooth or OTG usb cable. But from your description a phone app that takes snapshots, detect changes and sends Inernet/SMS messages whein it does should suffice, what is the arduino supposed to do?
You can connect the phone with arduino via wifi, bluetooth or OTG usb cable. But from your description a phone app that takes snapshots, detect changes and sends Inernet/SMS messages whein it does should suffice, what is the arduino supposed to do?
You know there is some small tablets, that don't have GSM and they are really cheap like 30~40$,
arduino will suppose to be the home security system, all the sensors around the house will be connected
to arduino via cable or wirelessly, as well the GSM module will be connected to arduino and arduino will be connected to the tablet.
The tablet will be the center system, the arduino/microcontroller will be connected to the tabler
and as well the camera will be connected to the table.
The tablet will have a homemade app which gonna take pictures / video and send them thru internet or
thru GSM like a MMS or something. Now there is a way as well to use the home Wifi from router but if the
power will be shutdown it's better to have the GMS module to provide internet to the tablet via a wifi
GSM module.
That's ofc all in theory but we need to talk about actual components.
I'll do a reseach and see with what i will come up, if you got any ideas already i'll be glad to hear them.
D.60
Before you leap into wireless sensors for the house, you might want to read the June, 2016 issue of Circuit Cellar. They talk about how they can get past the Comcast system for example with jamming - they can jam the sensors, open doors etc., do whatever they want and leave and when the jamming is removed, the system appears none the wiser that anything even happened. They also have a very interesting comment on how the wireless remote for cars can be easily broken with jamming :o Turns out it is pretty easy (much to everybody's dismay) and you can even buy a box apparently for about $30 to do it for you. Sigh. Having to rethink how I am going to do my home system.
mikey
Before you leap into wireless sensors for the house, you might want to read the June, 2016 issue of Circuit Cellar. They talk about how they can get past the Comcast system for example with jamming - they can jam the sensors, open doors etc., do whatever they want and leave and when the jamming is removed, the system appears none the wiser that anything even happened. They also have a very interesting comment on how the wireless remote for cars can be easily broken with jamming :o Turns out it is pretty easy (much to everybody's dismay) and you can even buy a box apparently for about $30 to do it for you. Sigh. Having to rethink how I am going to do my home system.
I agree with you and what they say about jammers, I read about how they jam ..etc but the system can be
made in other way if the wireless communication will not be received to arduino in few seconds like 5~10 seconds the alarm will start, lights system or talking pictures.
What I want is to make only the door part as wired system and the rest of the house wireless.
If someone enters the house there gonna be picture and video taken even if they find the device and take it or disable it the data will be already on a web server database or on a personal phone with you, seeing that someone is in your house in few seconds you can call the police and they will arrive fast having your pictures and proof.
In the other way if you want to make your house even safer you can put a C4 under the floor, explode the house and say that thieves done that and they gonna pay for the damage as well.
I'm kidding about the last part 
D.60
I like the C4 idea (but the lawyers would have a field day because you injured their client - even if he was in YOUR house). I agree it is not an insurmountable problem with the wireless jamming issue, but it is one you need to be aware of (just like the vehicle unlock issue - thinking outside the box was able to work around the complex rolling code they use and bypass it). Another consideration with the jamming - if they want to get in your house and your system alerts when jammed, all they have to do is jam it a couple of times without going in to create false alarms then you will have to turn it off.
How many doors/windows are you thinking about?
If you're not up to date on your camera standards you'll want to read up on the ONVIF standard. Pretty much these cameras are all Wifi/Ethernet based and have a pretty sturdy CPU in them - you can set motion regions and the like. And then along those lines you can find plenty of cameras with onboard SD storage or there are lots of inexpensive storage devices that connect via USB that will handle any storage issues.
And then along those lines you can find plenty of cameras with onboard SD storage or there are lots of inexpensive storage devices that connect via USB that will handle any storage issues.
The storage is not the problem, the problem is what if the thief will steal the SD Card or destroy the storage device, what's the point of that security system if they can destroy it and you have no data.
The point of this project and security system if to upload the data directly to a web server or sending it to another far away device thru internet or GSM, so in the case the the thief try to destroy the devices and
thinks there is no video or data left you will have the data uploaded to a server or your own device.
So that's the most perfectly security system which no one can do anything in that case to steal the data.
If in any kind of way there is thiefs who know about your security system and they jam the GSM signal you can have a hidden device in your house which gonna store 2nd time the data, storing them or still the jammer is offline and gonna retransmit or reupload the data of the security system.
D.60