A Motion Detection Based Surveillance System (MDSS)

Security is one of the biggest issues in today´s world. According to Metropolitan Police Service there have been a total of 33,471 robberies out of which 90% of them were personal and rest business and there has been a total of 92,135 burglaries out of which 70% of them were residential and the rest were non residential. The above figure shows that no doubt the crime is happing and let it be residential or non-residential places are not safe. There is surely a need for a system which can act as a surveillance for our offices and home and which is easy to use, which can run on a PC, which can be accessed via different medium like mobile phone, email or PDA. Human eye has always been considered as the most reliable source of surveillance. This paper concentrates on developing a computer based system which would replace human eye in surveillance. Machine vision is implemented to detect intruders and notify humans about the unexpected motion using SMS and email communication technologies. The system is a distributed application and can interact with its users from all over the world. Various motion detection algorithms were discussed and suitable choice was made for the project. There are more efficient algorithms available if the required reliability of the system is higher.