International Conference on Energy, Communication, Data Analytics and Soft Computing (ICECDS-2017)
IoT Enabled Home With Smart Security
Dr. M.L. Ravi Chandra1,
Dept. of ECE,
Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute of Technology,
Ananthapuramu, A.P-India Ananthapuramu, A.P-India
Abstract— The IoT enabled with smart security system
presents security to the home and also providing a facility to the
user where one can continuously monitor the surrounding
parameters inside the house (like temperature, smoke and light
intensity) and can control them by collection and exchange of
data between the things for example switching on/off devices (like
fan and light based on these parameters). In recent days when
ever house is locked the break-ins number has been increased
enormously. So in order to provide security to the home this
presented paper is helpful. When the intruders enters into the
house, image of the intruder is captured by the system, even if
intruder escapes Police need to caught the intruder to recover the
stolen things which needs the picture of the intruder to the police.
The planned system captures the picture of the intruder and
sends it to the authorized mail through internet over Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol (SMTP). So security to the home is provided
more effectively in the smart way of communicating the things.
Home appliances are smartly automated to reduce the human
effort for intelligent decisions with the help of Internet Of Things
(IoT). This compact and lightweight product is designed to
provide security and to control home appliances in the house by
the owner through IoT servers. Microcontroller used here is
Raspberry Pi3 for all processing and controlling operations.
Various sensors such as LM35 a temperature sensor, Light
Dependent Resistor, PIR sensor with a magnetic door switch,
smoke sensor are interfaced to pi General Purpose Input Output
port pins through Analog to Digital Converter module along with
a camera and LAN connection is interfaced to the pi board.
Keywords—Smart security sensors; Raspberry Pi3
Microcontroller; IoT; SMTP.
I. INTRODUCTION
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical
objects—devices, vehicles, buildings and other items
embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network
connectivity—that enables these objects to collect and
exchange data. The most notable features of IoT include
artificial intelligence, connectivity, sensors, active
engagement, and small implement use. Any device depart
essentially be embedded with physical science, software,
sensors to speak with different device is “Things”. A Thing,
within the Internet of Things, are often an individual with a
monitor implant, microchip a placental mammal with a
microchip electronic device, Associate in nursing automobile
that has built in sensors to alert the driving force once tire
pressure is low or the other natural or unreal object that may
be allotted associate in nursing information science web based
protocol address and supplied with the flexibility to transfer
data over a network.
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B. Varun Kumar2, B.SureshBabu3
Dept. of ECE, Dept. of ECE,
SRIT, SRIT,
Anantapuramu, A.P-India
The Internet of Things is anterior to origin its presence
felt. Most folks admit Smartphone’s these eras, fully a scant
folks have good TVs, and most with success folks in all
probability understand somebody owns a sensible automotive.
Directly, we have a tendency to assault different associated
devices in our lives- smart watches that may tell the degree
opposite calories we outburst out, cutlery that may tell the
once to prevent ingestion, ovens that we will activate
remotely, while wrist joint bands, streetlights laundry
machines, pills and even bridges can all become inter
connected. Internet of Things is categorically specifically
changing into a reality. We will see the proof of it around the
world. Our devices square measure property good on all
occasions from latest phones to latest TV to smart automotive
to smart room, everything is currently obtaining connected and
communicated through internet. Each year, we’ll see
a larger range of everyday devices that suddenly become
“smart”. In fact, it won’t be long till there square measure a lot
of connected devices than there square measure folks.
Analysts predict that there'll be fifty billion connected “things”
by 2020, whereas the population of the planet can climb to a
mere 7.6 billion by 2020, in keeping with the Cisco IBSG.
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
D. Naresh proposed the “Bluetooth Based Home Automation
and Security System Using ARM9” [1]. The paper proposed
that home need electrical parameters are interfaced to the
general purpose input / output ports of the microcontroller in
an embedded system board and their status is passed to the
ARM7 with Bluetooth device.
Jitendra Rana has proposed “Zigbee Based Home
Automation” embedded system with the ZigBee wireless
network and indicated how to overcome by eliminating the
complication of wiring in case of inter connected wired
automation[2].
Md. Nasimuzzaman Chowdhury presented the “Access
Control of Door and Home Security by Raspberry Pi Through
Internet” embedded system when it communicated with both
the interrupts of raspberry pi which take a snap shot of the
person through a camera and transmits via wifi[3].
M.L. Ravi Chandra presented a devised protocol called Fault
Tolerance QoS Routing Protocol, which has capability to send
the data with an alternative route when route break occurs.
This protocol gives the better results than GAEEQR in terms
of delay, packet delivery ratio, and throughput and energy
consumption [4].
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Subhajit Dey “Web Based Real-Time Home Automation and
Security System” this proposed system is an smartly
automated way of controlling home electrical parameters via
human involved communication as well as through smart
control of the entire system is provided[5].
III. HARDWARE REQUIREMENT
Microcontroller (Raspberry Pi3): The Raspberry Pi is a
small pocket size on chip computer originated in the United
Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi foundation. LINUX is the
shrink traditions operating system and Python is the generally
main programming language used in pi. This raspberry pi is
used to Transmit or receive the data into the cloud or from
sensors over wireless communication.
Figure 1. Raspberry Pi3 Microcontroller
Magnetic door switch: This Magnetic Door detector is
basically a reed switch, sheathed in associated ABS
plastic shell. Usually the reed is 'open'
(no association between the 2 wires). The opposite is associate
degree attraction magnet. Once the magnet is a smaller
amount than 13mm (0.5") away, the reed switch
closes that indicates door is open.
PIR Sensor: It is an associate electronic detector that is
employed for motion detection. Human body generates a
infrared heat which is picked up by the motion sensor and
outputs a 5V signal for a period of one minute to the
Raspberry Pi through GPIO pins and the alarm triggers and
message need to be displayed.
Temperature Sensor (LM35): LM35 may be an exactitude
precision IC temperature sensor with its electrical output
proportional to the temperature (in °C). All of that’s work into
the little package with 3 leads. One of the lead named as Vcc is
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connected to power supply and another lead GND is
connected to ground and one more lead Vout is connected to
ADC module which feds the temperature sensor output to the
corresponding GPIO pin of pi.
Gas Sensor (MQ-2): The Grove-Gas detector (MQ2)
module is beneficial for gas run detection. It’s appropriate for
sleuthing H2, LPG, CH4, CO, Alcohol, Smoke
or fuel. Attributable to its high sensitivity and quick latent
period, menstruation will be taken as presently as potential.
The sensitivity of the detector will be adjusted by
potentiometer. Gas detector 3 pins which are connected to the
power supply facility provide by the predefined
pin and information pin is connected to ADC module that feds
digital information price to the corresponding GPIO pin of pi.
ADC Module: The ADC0808 data acquisition component
is a monolithic CMOS device with an 8-bit analog-to-digital
converter. This ADC module is interfaced between pi and
various analog sensors to establish communication to
exchange data from sensors to pi.
LDR (Light Dependant Resistor): A photo resistor or Light
Dependent Resistor or CdS (Cadmium Sulphide) Cell is a
resistor whose resistance decreases with increasing incident
light intensity. LDR is interfaced to pi through ADC module
to read the light data value.
IV. IOT ENABLED HOME WITH SMART SECURITY SYSTEM
IoT enabled home with smart security system is used to
capture the image of the intruder when ever he/she opens the
door and if he/she enters in to the room then the raspberry pi
sends that image to the mail and buzzer will be in the on
position to alert the neighbors. When the person opens the
door the magnetic door switch detects it by working as a reed
switch that information is fed to ADC module which converts
it into digital data that can be read as input signal through
GPIO port pin to the raspberry pi microcontroller then the pi
programmed to activate the buzzer which is connected to the
corresponding GPIO port pin.
If the person is entered into the room PIR detects the
presence of human by generating an electrical signal which is
fed as an input signal to the pi and the pi will trigger a signal
to the camera to capture the image of the person, that image
information will be transmitted to owners mail through
raspberry pi3 microcontroller which has internet accessing
capability with the help of LAN or WiFi. The sensors
connected to the pi microcontroller continuously sense the
physical values i.e., temperature sensor senses the surrounding
temperature in the home and provides input to the ADC
module which converts it into digital data that is read by
respective connected GPIO port pin of the Raspberry Pi
microcontroller periodically. Similarly, humidity sensor senses
the humidity levels present in the atmosphere. LDR senses the
light intensity in home. Gas sensor senses the gas content in
the home and corresponding GPIO port pin of Raspberry pi
reads the value to the Pi. The sensed values will be are
converted into digital by ADC module which are read as the
input by the GPIOs port pins of the pi microcontroller. These
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digital data values are processed and digitized in the pi
microcontroller. These digital data values are continuously
transmitted to the user through IoT web server thingspeak.com
account through internet by following MQTT (Message
Queuing Telemetry Transport) light weight messaging
protocol. These digital values are displayed in the form of
graphs for better understanding of the home appliances
through these parameters. In Parallel the sensed and digitized
values are displayed in the monitor, along with the status of
each thing such as fan, light. The user can login into their
account by the username and password. The sensor values are
displayed in the respective fields in the form of graphs for
easy visualization. Depending upon the sensor values, the
switching of ON or OFF the fan or light can be done by just
sending the command through talkback app in
thingspeak.com. Hence, controlling of the things in the home
from being in office or any other places is possible through
internet with the enable of IoT. The planned system consists of
connected raspberry pi3 microcontroller, with magnetic door
switch, PIR sensor, temperature sensor LM35, light sensor
LDR, gas sensor MQ-2 which are interfaced to ADC module
to pi as inputs, relays, camera, buzzer are interfaced to pi, and
LAN cable connected to pi as shown in block diagram of
figure 2.
Figure 2. Block diagram of IoT enabled home with smart security
V. RESULTS
This proposed paper is to design and provide security to
our home over camera surveillance and controlling our home
appliances by IoT enable system without any human
interaction. The sensors can generates the inputs to the pi then
pi can take the action depends on the sensors.
In this section, shown how to set the talkback in
ThinkSpeak.com for controlling appliances such as light and
fan from a remote location. A pictorial view of how intruders
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will be detected is also shown in the following result
screenshots figures.
The temperature sensor LM35 which detect the surrounding
temperature and generates analog electrical signal that is fed to
ADC0808 pin. Light sensor LDR which detects the
surrounding light intensity and generates analog electrical
signal that is fed to ADC 0808 pin, Gas sensor MQ-2 which
detects the surrounding harmful gas such as LPG, smoke and
generates analog electrical signal that is fed to ADC 0808 pin,
All these sensed analog signals which are connected to ADC
0808 pins are converted into digital data by ADC module.
Then these digital data is read by respective GPIO port pins of
pi as input data. The data which is read by GPIO port pins is
processed by the desire python program which have dumped
in pi to display the sensed data in LCD, serial monitor as well
as to transmit the these sensed data into IoT cloud server
thingspeak.com trough Internet following MQTT protocol as
shown in the below figure 3, which shows the sensed data in
terms of graph charts in thingspeak.com.
Figure 3. Sensor readings based graphs in ThinkSpeak.com IoT server
User can have continuous monitor of all parameters from
graph charts in thingspeak.com. According to the values
displayed in the website user can choose the desired action.
When all the sensor values are normal both fan and light are
OFF and the action is as shown in figure 4, figure 5 which
show the status of the things.
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Figure 6. Setting Talkback to BOTH ON

Figure 4. Setting Talkback to BOTH OFF

Figure 5. Output when Talkback is BOTH OFF

Figure 7. Output when Talkback is BOTH ON

If the user desired to switch both the things to be in ON
position the corresponding talkback is as shown in below
figure 6 and the corresponding switching action is shown in
below figure 7.
Similarly to switch ON the light alone or fan alone the
command used here is D1 ON to turn it OFF the command
used is D1 OFF and D2 ON to turn it OFF the command used
is D2 OFF respectively.
The PIR sensor values and magnetic door switch (reed switch)
values along with temperature, LDR and smoke sensor values
are shown in console and continuous monitoring of area also
provided with the help of camera along with the figure
showing a person image entered into the home by opening the
door which is shown in the below figure 8.

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Figure 8: Sensor Readings on the console with human detection & capture of N.O.Sadiku, Third Edition, 2008 TMH.
image
Whenever PIR sensor detects the presence of human or
magnetic door sensor opens the captured picture is send to the
owner mail over SMTP.
Advantages:
1. Continuous monitoring is possible with the IoT.
2. Circuit complexity is less because of presence of
number on onboard ports.
3. With the help of picture of intruder one can recover
their stolen things easily.

Conclusion:
In this presented paper, security is provided to the
home in the absence of owner by sending the images of the
intruder to the owner mail over SMTP and continuous
monitoring of physical parameters in the home can be
observed in the thingspeak.com IoT web server and according
to the owner’s decision in the website fan and light can be
controlled with the help of IoT.

Future Scope:
This presented paper work can be further extended
to send the video recorded in the scene to the nearby police
station immediately to provide better security and by
measuring even more physical parameters more home
appliances can be controlled and instead of just switching on
the fan one can choose the desired temperature.

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