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Title: Homeland Security System


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Homeland Security System
  • Danny Butler
  • EKU, Dept. of Technology

2
OUTLINE
  • Introduction of the Homeland Security System.
  • Behind the making of the Homeland Security
    System.
  • Simple instruction over the use of the system.
  • Potential future add-ins to the system.

3
MOTIVATION
  • The driving force behind the homeland security
    system
  • The threat of theft or privacy violation is
    always present, I decided to create something
    that alerts the end-user automatically of an
    intruder to provide peace of mind.
  • I was also just curious what, if anything,
    happened in my room when I was not there

4
INTRODUCTION
  • Security has been an issue ever since people
    began to collect things. The human emotion of
    jealousy can instigate activities of theft or
    sabotage.
  • Many great individual detectives, and agencies
    have arisen throughout the years to aid in the
    protection of our personal belongings Nancy
    Drew, the Hardy boys, Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
    Watson, Inspector Gadget
  • and now we have Dannys Homeland Security!

5
The Goals of Dannys Homeland Security
  • Everyone deserves a little confidence when it
    comes to protecting their things and themselves.
  • I feel that the average computer user should be
    capable of setting up their own home security
    system quickly and effectively.
  • To increase the ease of this usually complicated
    process, a number of features need to be
    incorporated in a pre-packaged system.
  • Also a zero maintenance/upkeep cost is appealing.

6
The Making ofDannys Homeland Security
  • Identify the specific functions which a good
    security system will implement.
  • Research the topic.
  • Hardware setup.
  • Software setup.
  • Testing troubleshooting.
  • Verifying results.

7
Specific Functions
  • List of features required for an effective
    surveillance system
  • The security system needs to create a video of
    the intrusion.
  • The security system needs to alert the end-user
    of the intrusion in real time.
  • The security system needs to save the video to a
    location accessible anywhere by the end-user.

8
Research
  • Investigate other programs that are similar in
    design and implementation.
  • Determine what components will be needed and how
    they will interact.
  • Webcam.
  • Motion detector (develop a hardware switch or
    simulate through software.)
  • Auto record video once motion is detected.
  • E-mail the video File and send a text message.

9
Hardware Setup
  • This step was very simple, I had shopped around
    for webcam and settled on the Logitech Orbit.
    One of the features that came with the webcam
    software was motion detection tied in with auto
    video recording.
  • Of course there are lists of other freeware
    programs I found through research that take
    pictures once movement have triggered the motion
    detection algorithms.

10
Software Setup
  • I did research into what programming language to
    use, I discovered that I could achieve all of my
    requirements by using Visual Basic. (Plus I
    already had it installed.)
  • After a few trips to the internet I learned how
    to write using the system.net libraries,
    including .mail and .networkinformation. With
    these libraries I was able to write code to
    achieve the following
  • Scan a selected folder and determine when a file
    has been written inside the folder. Once
    detected, the file pathname is saved to a
    variable.
  • This pathname is then passed to an e-mail writing
    function that attaches the file and sends an
    e-mail and text message

11
Testing and Troubleshooting
  • I approached the testing process one function at
    a time in my code
  • I implemented a function, then tested it
    independently.
  • Once all of my functions worked separately I tied
    them all together and tested how they worked as a
    program.
  • The one significant problem encountered was when
    g-mail changed the mail server welcome port
    number. However, I was able to quickly fix it
    after two or three google searches

12
Verifying Results
  • Simply put It worked. I was able to receive
    text messages and check out video of my roommate
    taking some beer from my refrigerator while I was
    at work. (I told him he could just not why)

13
Using the HomelandSecurity System
Dannys Homeland Security!!
Very easy to use Set the webcam software to take
videos of motion, point your webcam, enter your
information, then activate your system. Now you
have started protecting your things!
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Using the HomelandSecurity System
Dannys Homeland Security!!
As you can see I have entered in my contact
information, activated the system and now I am
recording my movement to a video file.
15
Using the HomelandSecurity System
Dannys Homeland Security!!
Here is my e-mail message with the video
attachment.
16
Using the HomelandSecurity System
Dannys Homeland Security!!
These are the snapshots of my text message
corresponding with the last intrusion detection.
17
RESULTS
  • I have created a very efficient security system
    that costs nothing and is portable from one
    computer to the next.
  • My belongings in my apartment are being watched!

18
CONCLUSIONS
  • I designed and created my own security system
    that uses multiple steps to create one desired
    outcome.
  • I have, by accomplishing this challenge, gained
    more experience in researching Visual Basics
    .net libraries and the different functions they
    were designed to complete. I have, as a result
    of this, learned a lot more about Visual Basic
    programming.

19
Potential Future Add-ins
  • The computer makes it possible to customize the
    security system to have more features than it
    currently possesses.
  • Possible ideas include
  • An audible alarm to deter the intruder.
  • A picture snapshot sent to the user via
    attachment to the text message.
  • Increased scalability to include multiple
    cameras.
  • Any other ideas from the audience?

20
Fin
  • Questions?
  • Comments?
  • Or, request your own copy of Dannys Homeland
    Security System!
  • Contact me at Danny_Butler18_at_eku.edu
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