ECE434 Security Camera
Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder
Team members: Seun Ladipo and Ryan Oberlitner
Contents
Grading Template
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00 Executive Summary 00 Installation Instructions 00 User Instructions 00 Highlights 00 Theory of Operation 00 Work Breakdown 00 Future Work 00 Conclusions 00 Demo 00 Late Comments: I'm looking forward to seeing this. Score: 10/100
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Executive Summary
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For this project we created a security camera that can be used to monitor a determined area. This is implemented with a BeagleBone Black and a PlayStation eye as the main components. We also have a manual operation mode as well as a live video feed that goes directly to a Blynk controller. Alongside this, we are also registering motion and sending a recording to a repo whenever this motion is registered. The use of this project is to, whether manually or automatically, monitor a defined area similar to surveillance cameras that are used in many places around the world today. This could serve as a replacement to a Google Nest Camera(https://store.google.com/product/nest_cam_outdoor?gclid=CjwKCAiA_MPuBRB5EiwAHTTvMb3A4UzdK2UyQnRzqudefripDsK73L7J20r-08Z_Jn4a7763-2NOFRoCSEgQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) priced at about $199 while our solution is priced at the price of around $90 total. It is important that we for some reason could not use bonescript in the motion detection portion of the project meaning that we could not display motion detection alongside the manual control. We will instead use Two beagles in our demonstration to show both portion of the project.
Packaging
For packaging we decided to keep is very simple as the only device we have is the camera itself alongside the BeagleBone board. We did use a custom 3D printed housing to hold the camera in place with the servo.
Installation Instructions
Github: https://github.com/16oberryan/embeddedSecurityCam
You'll need to create a Blynk app and set up an ifttt application. There are tutorials for each online, and both are free (you'll need to make an account). Ifttt is used for notifications, and uses webhooks as the trigger for the event (I used it to trigger emails with Gmail). The Blynk app is used to control the program. For full functionality, you will need to add the following widgets: Video Streaming, Joystick, and 4 buttons (don't worry, you shouldn't have to buy more energy). The first button turns on and off Motion, and should be connected to virtual pin 0. The second button turns on and off video streaming, and is connected to virtual pin 1. The third button turns on ifttt notifications, and is connected to virtual pin 2. The fourth button filters the events that cause ifttt notifications (usually one movement caused multiple triggers), and is connected to virtual pin 3. All 4 buttons should be set to be switches. The video streaming widget should be set to the system's IP address, port 8081 (format: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8081) Finally, the Joystick should be set to virtual pins 4 and 5.
Next, the program has to be authorized for Blynk and ifttt. The Blynk authentification key (sent via email) should be copied into the 'AUTH' variable. The ifttt key (found in settings) should be copied into the 'key' variable.
Now it should be ready to go, just make sure the system is connected to the internet, run the code with './security.js' (without the quotes), and you should see the device go online in the Blynk app.
User Instructions
As mentioned in the installation instructions, there are several Blynk widgets that control the program.
* Button (V0): Starts and stops Motion, which records any motion detected by the camera * Button (V1): Toggles video streaming to the Video Streaming widget * Button (V2): Toggles on/off ifttt event triggering when motion is detected * Button (V3): Toggles filtering when ifttt events occur, you might just want to leave this on, as without it multiple triggers are often sent to ifttt in one motion event * Joystick (V4, V5): Controls the camera via servos * Video Streaming: Shows the video stream of the camera when streaming is turned on, although it doesn't seem to refresh well when you turn streaming on. If it doesn't notice the stream, you can force it to refresh by stopping and starting the Blynk project from the app.
Highlights
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Theory of Operation
We are using javascript, so all of our code is event-based. When the program starts running, it first connects to Blynk, where it can be controlled from a smartphone. Using different options in the Blynk app, the program can be instructed to start or stop Motion, stream video, and send email notifications of motion detection via ifttt.
Work Breakdown
List the major tasks in your project and who did what.
* Blynk integration - both * ifttt integration - Ryan * Video Streaming - Ryan * Misc. settings - Ryan * Chokidar for event detection - Ryan * Joystick control - Seun * 3D printing - Seun
Future Work
Suggest additional things that could be done with this project.
Conclusions
Give some concluding thoughts about the project. Suggest some future additions that could make it even more interesting.
Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder
