Live View Car Surveillance System

1st Malik Tayyab Rehman 2nd Nasir Khan Swati 3rd Anas Ahmad Chaudhary
Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering
Bahria University Islamabad campus Bahria University Islamabad campus Bahria University Islamabad campus
Islamabad, Pakistan Islamabad, Pakistan Islamabad, Pakistan
tayyabrehman1997@gmail.com nasirkswati@gmail.com anasbuic@gmail.com
4th Syed Asim Ali Shah
Department of Electrical Engineering
Bahria University Islamabad campus
Islamabad, Pakistan
sasimalishah@gmail.com

Abstract—Today we are living in the 21st century where
with the increase in technological advancements and IOT,
human race is facing a large breakdown in security issues.
With the fast-technological advancement, we face certain
problems in our daily life. Vehicle security is one of the major
issues in the current era.
Car automation and surveillance is an escalating trend in
this decade. The vehicle security has become a need of the time.
In this paper we propose a real-time security system with a live
360-degree view of the vehicle and intelligence to the system
made through using various sensors to pin point the area of
contact to the vehicle which will be added advantage to the
owner of the vehicle. We are using a security system which
senses the motion, sends a notification to the owner, and the
owners can also see the video through camera in their mobile
phone app. The system works on the principle of real-time
camera surveillance system. Moreover, the proposed system
can also be extended to inculcate the concept of Ad-hoc
networking in intelligent cars, to send a warning to the car at
the back, in case of an accident which will press the brakes of
car to stop at a safe distance. This paper lies in the field of
Internet of things (IOT), Block chain, Smart cities, Data
analytics, Mobile application, Knowledge management, Digital
transformation, Networking, Wireless/Mobile Communication,
Statistics in Society Signal Processing using smart cars using
Raspberry pi, Sensors, Cameras, GPRS, GPS.
Keywords— Keywords: IOT; Security; Smart Cities;
Sensors; Camera; Cars; GPRS; Raspberry pi; GPS.
I. INTRODUCTION
We are living between the high-level technological
century and taking care of things has been totally changed.
The technological advancement is increasing day by day,
there is an utmost need to increase the security of the
vehicles.
The hardware required for building the proposed system
includes a Raspberry Pi, Sensors, Three Cameras and a
GPRS module.
Since there are many technological restraints, in this
paper we propose a better solution to cope up this issue. The
Security System’s performance specifications are motion
detection, Real time camera surveillance, two-way
communication, quick response and cloud storage.
The system will be stopped manually, if required. We use
a GSM Module and Raspberry Pi for this proposed system.
The Raspberry Pi senses the motion sensors attached to the
car doors, hood and trunk. It then process the live video
taken by the cameras and sends it to the owner. An additional
power source is proposed as a secondary power to the
raspberry Pi to make it functional in case of power loss. The
power source will be a battery attached to a raspberry Pi.
As explained in section III, figure 1 Six sensors are
embedded in the car as S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 and S6 are
connected in different parts of the car and three Cameras are
installed as C1, connected in left pillar, C2, connected in
Right Pillar and C3, connected in front with rare view mirror.
A Centralized hub i.e. Raspberry Pi relates to the sensors S1,
S2, S3, S4, S5 and S6 and continuously checks for their
response, whenever a motion is detected It will send a
notification to the owner who can see the live video
streaming of his car. More over if owner feels a threat he can
contact police with Realtime current location of his car.
The GSM Module will be used to provide
communication between Raspberry Pi and the owner using
LTE Technology. The GPS will track the car in Realtime.
The Mobile Application will get notification alert from
GSM Module which will be attached with the Raspberry Pi
and will check live camera surveillance, hence the main
theme of design is that we have a Surveillance security
system in a car by using Raspberry Pi 3 model B+ attached
with a GSM Module, Cameras, Sensors and communication
through Mobile Application, having features such as alert,
live camera surveillance, easy access, alert to authorities and
family members.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
Car Immobilizer is now considered as one of the best
security systems launched so far. It is an electronic security
system that only operates when the correct respondent’s key
is used [1]. This immobilizer system is mandatory in most of
the European countries. It prevents intruders from hot wiring
the car. It is based on a transponder and a radio frequency
receiver [2]. The transponder sends a unique code to the
receiver which identifies the code and turns on the ECU,
which allows the ignition system or fuel system to turn on
the car, with respect to this system the proposed system in

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this paper would be more efficient as it would give more
functionality to the users.
Vehicle tracking system using DTMF technology used
to send Radio frequency upon activation whose distance is
calculated by the cellular towers using triangulation or
arculation, which is then send to the main server where
location is calculated using large computers by comparing
graphs with map [3]. This again is very expensive to operate
as big computing power is required.
Latest vehicles now a days use an apparatus like a key
fob for sensing the unauthorized movement of vehicles and
generating an alarm or warning of vehicle theft which is then
sent as a warning alert to the owner if vehicle moves in an
unauthorized way using acceleration sensors [4] this type of
system uses micro controllers when the owner is not in the
vicinity of the vehicle, but disarmed or de-activated in the
presence of the owner as the owner's radio-coded
identification transmitter associated with the owner's key fob
is in the vicinity of the vehicle, this poses multiple issues as
if the vehicle is moved in the same manner as the owner
moves it may mistaken the thief as the owner, this problem is
irradiated in the proposed system.
Surveillance and monitoring system using Raspberry Pi
and simple cv uses Raspberry Pi and motion detection which
uses a computer where live video can also be saved in a hard
disk for the future use. This sort of system can only be
operated for single camera and uses a large PC system which
is directly connected to the raspberry pi [5]. The system is
widely used for residential areas, government organizations,
commercial spaces, schools and hospitals, industries and
banking organizations, but due to the large size of the PC it
cannot be used in connection with the vehicles.
Real Time Vehicle Monitoring and Tracking system
based on Embedded LINUX Board and Android application
is design to track a vehicle in real-time such as school vans
this system uses GPS, GPRS, GSM, SIM/900A, [9] this
system gives real time tracking, current location and sends
out text messages to the owner when required.
GSM based Car security system uses AT89S52
microcontroller [10] connected with Vibration Detector
which senses the motion and sends an SMS alert to the
owner along with triggering an alarm.
Low Cost Real-Time System Monitoring Using
Raspberry Pi system uses a cloud storage for video
surveillance that can be accessed through mobile phone or pc
using internet by cloud computing methods the system can
be easily installed in areas such as supermarkets, factories,
hospitals, hotels, schools, and companies where internet is
provided to the system through Wi-Fi module [11].
III. IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
In this paper the proposed system is mainly designed
using a Raspberry pi 3 model B+ which acts as a CPU and a
4G LTE GSM module. The system has 100MBPS download
and 50 MBPS uploading speed capability which will give us
ultra-fast connectivity for live video streaming there are also
three cameras connected to the raspberry pi which will be
controlled by the owner and will be operated using android
app.

Embedded image capturing system using Raspberry pi

captures an image and a processing chip is directly connected
with a monitor and an SD card which is used to save the
data, this system is very fast as 32-bit data is connected
directly to the processing chip which processes the image
captured by the Raspberry pi and sends it to the screen [6].

Microcontroller based Anti-Theft Security System Using

GSM Network with Text Message as feedback system
proposed in 2012 utilizes an embedded system design with
Dual Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF) and a GSM to monitor
and safeguard a car. The system Demobilizes the car when a
theft is detected and sends an SMS to the owner more over
this system also incorporates an alarm to notify nearby
people [7]. This system is very close to the proposed system,
but our proposed system integrates video with it which can
be recorded and used as evidence for a lot of purposes.
Figure 1: Top View of Car with Embedded Sensors
Car monitoring using Bluetooth Security System uses a
Bluetooth interface when an intruder is detected the system
sends an alert to the owner using Bluetooth, PIR sensors are There are total of six vibration sensors installed in all
used to detect the motion in the car [8]. four doors, hood and trunk. As shown in the figure 1
whenever an intruder is detected by the help of sensors
installed in all doors, hood and trunk the owner will be
informed with an animated android app with the specific part
of the car which is being influenced. At that time owner can
check live video for being sure if there is someone trying to
steal his car or something else is being happening to his car,
more over there is a built-in option in the android app that
will send the warning alert to the police department with the
current location of the car using GPRS.

Figure 3: 360º coverage

Figure 3 shows that all the side mirrors the front mirror
and the back view are covered by the help of three cameras.

IV. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

For practical implementation of our project we need
certain hard ware products as shown in Figure 4. Firstly, we
need a mini computer which will be acting as a centralized
hub which will connect all the other components. For that
purpose, we are using raspberry pi. For communication we
are using GSM module. And an ultra-sensitive sensor SW-
420 will be used for sensing and detecting.

Figure 2: Flow diagram

As illustrated in figure 2 we have described the flow-

chart of how our project will work. First of all, we used
motion sensors which are continuously detecting whether
someone touches our vehicle or not. If someone try to touch
or damage, a notification will be sent to owner through GSM
module and will wait for owner response whether go for live
surveillance or do nothing and go again for sensing. If owner
send command for live camera surveillance, then the live
streaming will be start from that specific camera or from all
three cameras for 360-degree coverage. And then system will
wait for owner’s response whether to call police otherwise
camera live surveillance will off.

Figure 4: Hardware Components

 a) Raspberry-Pi: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is a mini
CPU having Broadcom BCM2837B0, Cortex-A53
(ARMv8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.4GHz processor, 1GB LPDDR2
SDRAM, 2.4GHz and 5GHz IEEE 802.11.b/g/n/ac wireless
LAN, Bluetooth 4.2, BLE, 100 Base Ethernet, 40-pin
extended GPIO, 4 USB 2 ports, 4 Pole stereo output and
composite video port, Full size HDMI, CSI camera port for
connecting a Raspberry Pi camera and Upgraded switched
Micro USB power source up to 2.5A. So, with the help of
this powerful minicomputer a lot of digital transformation
and signal processing can be done easily [12].

b) Motion sensor: For motion sensing we are using

SW-420 module it is an efficient vibration sensor having
strong driving ability to work at 15mA and 3.3 V that use to
drive LM393 used as a voltage comparator to perform
digital switching [13].
Figure 5: Model flow

c) GSM Module: This is considered as the heart of the

system because two-way communication is the core part of
our system, with this module we will send notification to the
owner and through this module the owner can request
Raspberry pi for live video streaming.
d) Power source: A separate power source such as
power bank with 5v regulated power supply is used to
power system separately, because it is seen in common
practice during car theft power battery power is mostly cut
off to get rid of mostly installed burglar alarm and other
devices before starting the car.
For this purpose, we will install a small power source for the
system to operate in case of power failure because the whole
system is will be operated on 5V and 2.5amp so, overall
system is using 12.5watt of energy.
e) Cameras: There will be three cameras used for live
surveillance that will only turned on by the user using
android app by the help of GSM 4G LTE module and
raspberry.
f) Raspberry Pi multi camera adapter module:
Raspberry pi is only capable of using single camera at a
time with the help of this we can connect to 4 cameras to a
single raspberry pi.
Firstly, from all six Sensors i.e. a motion and a specific
result will be generated along each sensor. Whenever a
sensor is triggered GSM module will send a warning alert to
the owner and the specific code generated along the sensor
will notify through animated android app that which part of
the car is being hit or under threat.
From this information the owner can request a live
camera surveillance for his vehicle which will be played live
as well as he can save it on the cloud storage in case if the
owner do not feel safe. All the three cameras will be working
together to cover 360º view. So, our model can be considered
as the one of the latest car surveillance system so far.
VI. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE
In this paper a unique security system is proposed in
which owner can have a live access to his car at the hour of
need using Raspberry-pi 3 model B+, GSM module and
multiple camera access which will cover all 360 view more
over system have an instantaneous response in real time and
a backup power source to keep system running in case of
power loss so we can say this is the most advance system so
far.
Thus, the system can be made more advanced by using
night vision cameras and a flash light which is mostly
common in most of the cameras module.
Since we are using GSM module, we can also embed the
system with the concept of Adhoc -Networking so if the
system is installed in more than one car there can be an
interlink with in the cars on road that can connect through to
inform the approaching vehicles about the accidents ahead,
so the concept of safe cities can be easily achieved.

V. PROPOSED MODEL
Here is our proposed model shown in fig 5 in which a
raspberry pi will be connected directly to multi-camera
module which will connect three cameras to get a full 360º
view.
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