Motion Detection Notification System by Short Messaging Service Using Network Camera and Global System for Mobile Modem

Journal of Computer Science and Engineering, Volume 1, Issue 1, p18-26, May 2010 As the technology rapidly grows, the trend is clear that the use of mobile devices is gain an attention nowadays, thus designing a system by integrating it with notification feature is becoming an important aspect especially in tracking and monitoring system. Conventional security surveillance systems require the constant attention from the user, to monitor the location concurrently. In order to reduce the cost of computing power and advance technology of mobile phone in widespread acceptance of the Internet as a viable communication medium, this paper is aimed to design a low cost web-based system as a platform to view the image captured. When the network camera detects any movement from the intruders, it automatically captures the image and sends it to the database of the web-based directly by the network through File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The camera is attached through an Ethernet connection and power source. Therefore, the camera can be viewed from either standard Web browser or cell phone. Nowadays, when a security camera is installed, user is notified as long as the camera is switched on since any slight movement requires the attention of the supervisor. The utility of the system has proven theoretically. This system will also notify the user by sending a notification through Short Messages Services (SMS).