themightyraider / capstone

Home surveillance system :eyes:

CAPSTONE

Smart Surveillance System

About:

The goal of the project is to create a home surveillance system which is capable of monitoring, recognizing and responding during intrusion. The system should be capable of processing the video stream at real-time. The system should be user-friendly and should be at an affordable price. The system uses a raspberry pi to capture and process the video stream from the camera.

System Architecture

Tool Stack:

• IDE
• Raspberry Pi 4
• Raspberry Pi Camera

Installation:

• Set up a virtual environment and activate it

• Clone the project and install the packages using,

  python pip install requirements.txt

• Create a database in your PostgreSQL

• Create a .env file with NAME, USER, PASSWORD, HOST of the database and your email credentials EMAIL_HOST_USER, EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD

Setting up the environment:

• First task, Migrate the django model to PostgreSQL using the following command,

  python manage.py makemigrations capstone

  python manage.py migrate

• Next, intiate the celery with the following command,

  python celery -A mysite worker -l info

• Run the raspberrypi.py script in a new terminal

  python raspberrypi.py

• Finally, Run the django server in a another terminal

  python manage.py runserver

System Flow:

• Login/Register into the system with the /register or /login endpoint
• Then generate the facial encoding of the known people by uploading a minimum of 6 photos per person using the endpoint /encoding
• Once the familiar faces are uploaded, The system will be able to diffrentiate between familar faces and a unknown face.
• When a unknown face is detected, the system send a mail with the detected face.

Endpoints

• /register : To register a account
• /encoding : For generating facial encoding
• /livestream : Viewing the raspberry pi stream
• /log : History of intruder/unknown images

Future Scope

• Deploy it in a cloud platform.
• Improvise the latency.
• Feature to switch to raspberry storage in case of bad internet connectivity.
• Feature to detect violent activity such as gun detection, holding a knife in a attacking position.