Development of mobile phone based surveillance system

Abstract

In today's world, ensuring security for important locations is a burning issue, DifTerent surveillance methodologies such as alarm system, CCTV, PC based video system are used to ensure this security, But using all these systems, it is not possible for a person to monitor the security of his or her desired location when they are outside. Now-a-days anybody can communicate with anyone at anytime around the globe with the help of mobile phone technology. By keeping the technological facility of mobile phone in mind, a mobile phone based surveillance systcm has bcen developed in this project. This project will give a solution for the security of corporate houses as well as corporate personnel. In this project there are server and client end. A webcam is connected to the server and it will capture images of the desired location continuously. The images will be saved in a specific location of the server. Then client will start fetching images one by one li'Dlllthat specific location of the server by key-in the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) from their mobile phone. Client has also the option to send control instruction to the server for the movement of the webcam. Server receives the control instructions from the mobile phone and control the movement of the webcam based on the instructions. The dcveloped system has been tested lirst using the QUI (emulator) designed by NetBeans IDE. It has also been tested using different mobile phones to see the images in real time. The results in both cases are as desired and prove that the proposed system functions correctly in real time. This project can also be implemented for other handheld devices like PDA.