Project Synopsis

Simulation of Monitoring of Automated Home Intrusion using machine

learning at the Network Edge

1. Problem Statement
Home security is of the utmost importance in this modern era. The industry of home
security is growing rapidly. With this growth arises the problem of reliability and
accuracy. Multiple home monitoring devices are available in the market. Which range
from sensors at the doors to complex ones like multiple cameras and motion sensors
inside and outside the building. Together with these sensors, a typical security system
includes a control panel to arm and disarm the alarm. Teams of humans monitor these
monitoring systems around the clock. Humans are prone to errors and sometimes alarms
are triggered by an actual intrusion or by mistake. Each alarm that has to be handled by
human intervention will cost the monitoring service time as well as money. In this
project, we simulate an automated home monitoring system which resides on the edge
servers performing online learning on the data coming from the houses.

2. Review of literature
In [1] the author has adopted to replace the central human resource pool at the
monitoring station with computational resource of machine learning. To reduce the
bandwidth in case of large neighbourhoods he has adopted to have distributed edge
processing resources (edge servers) located at the neighbourhoods to be able perform
the monitoring for the homes and buildings in that neighbourhood. In [2] and [3] the
author has designed an apartment floor plan used for data generation. According to the
literature review the replacement of human resource with machine learning has a
significant effect in the detection of an actual intrusion and the reduce the possibility of
false alarms.

3. Block diagram/Architecture
4. Major Modules
 Data acquisition
Since the automated home monitoring system resides on the edge servers to learn
the data it receives online data acquisition or the data aggregation is our first step.
These data can be obtained from the facial image recognition cameras and the
packets sent by the sensors to the edge servers when the sensor is activated.

 Data preprocessing
The obtained data set is fed to the classifiers and each classifier examines a different
feature related to the entry event and combine the results of multiple classifiers to
infer whether the entry is normal one or an intrusion.

 Feature extraction and training

The results are accumulated in the edge servers and each entry is compared with the
rest of the data to reduce the false alarms and increase the accuracy and reliability.

5. Software requirements
 OpenNetVM
 Python/java
 NS2
6. Applications
The outcome of this project can be used in the home security industry to detect
intrusions and reduce false alarms.
Further, this project can be extended for monitoring of business and large cities.

7. References
Aditya Dhakal, K.K. Ramakrishnan
“Machine Learning at the Network Edge for Automated Home Intrusion Monitoring”
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8117594/