Raspberry Pi Based Home Surveillance System using SMTP

Different Technologies are emerging in the field of Home Surveillance now a days. Surveillance systems are being used to reduce man power and to increase security of a home. Technologies like Computer Vision and Internet of Things (IOT) are one of them. In this project a surveillance system has been implemented employing a single board computer i.e. Raspberry Pi 3 which will act like a central processing unit with the help of python language and a module named as Open Source Computer Vision(Open CV).To make it more automated a local database of authorized persons has been made. It will store the images of the different authorized persons who can enter in that security area. Camera will be always in surveillance mode and it will be searching for a face persistently. It’ll act as Computer Vision. This will lead to more accurate system with high efficiency. Therefore it’ll capture the image of the person automatically and compare it with the local database. In the case of match, door will be open automatically otherwise in the case of unauthorized person, system will send the image of the unauthorized person to owner of the home via SMTP(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). A local library in Python - "smtplib" is being press into service to send messages. The smtplib module characterizes a SMTP customer meeting object that can be utilized to send messages to any Web machine with SMTP( Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Also a webpage has been made with the help of apache server to store the images of unauthorized persons.