Mayday – Automated Home Security System using IOT

Abstract

The rise in theft, break-ins, accidents which caused due to negligence at home. Now-a-days both parents are working, leaving their kids and elderly people at home, as all make mistake kids and elderly people too tend to make some mistake which may cause accidents. It is at great concern to develop a Security and Safety System which can detect these threats and try to notify the owner so that he can prevent it well in time. The Main aim of our project is to provide Security and Safety to the user by notifying the user if any hazardous activity is taking place in the presence or absence of the user. The hazardous activities may include opening of Door, Gas Leakage in kitchen, fire in the house (due to any reason like short-circuit, negligence, etc.). It can also help to avoid wastage of electricity. It will notify the user when someone opens the door, Recognize the face of person and send the data to the owner in form of alert. If the visitor is an intruder, owner can take necessary steps to stop the person. It will also notify about accidents in home like fire, gas or smoke. Face recognition will be used to segregate between authorized user and intruder.

Keywords

• security
• safety
• face detection
• automation
• iot
• home security automation