
International Journal of Smart Home
Vol. 7, No. 2, March, 2013
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connected to different input pins which give different outputs when one of them is
clicked. Pressing of each button simulate the triggering of the sensors nodes. The LEDs
are turned on accordingly to the triggering button.
Figure 8. Simulation is Carried out on Proteus 7 Professional
6. Conclusion and Future Work
Multilevel home security system (MHSS) has been designed and developed. The
sensor nodes have been introduced and implemented in MHSS. The UART
communication between the hardware and the computer has been successfully
established and configured which enables the integration of sensor nodes with the
computer. The on-state of the camera is controlled by the PIC module through UART.
Camera captures images when the third stage is triggered. WIFI is used to send an
instant notification email to the home owner and police station. The email is attached
with instantly captured images after the third stage of MHSS is triggered. In addition,
MHSS has energy saving feature for example the light bulbs are turn off automatically
after exceeding a specified period.
At the current stage, MHSS lacks of the certain degree of freedom for the users. For
example, the target email addresses where the instant notification email is sent to
cannot be changed manually by users. It is proposed to improve the user’s preference
setting that enables the users to set the target email addresses. In the future, MHSS will
include an image processing tool at the entrance of the house. The user’s face will be
used as the passkey to opens locked door and unlock other security system like alarm
systems. Since the application of smart phone has become common which is affordable
worldwide, thus it will be used as the tool to control and monitor MHSS by the user
remotely.
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