Low-Cost PC-Based Video Surveillance System
Saiful Yazan, Abd Karim · 2007
This report covers the design, development and testing of a low-cost PCBased video surveillance system. Typical commercial video surveillance systems are expensive and not affordable to all level of user. A typical commercial video survei llance system today also is based largely on analog signal technology. This project will use digital signal technology which is more effici ent than analog signal. For this purpose, video surveillance software will be develop and designed. This paper also attempts to answer a number of questions about video surveillance: What are the applications of video surveillance? What are the system architectures for video surveillance? What are the key technologies? What are the some of the key technical challenges? And what are the implications of video surveillance, both to security and privacy? Video surveillance software is designed using Microsoft Visual Basic 6 program which controls the system using PC. This software is then integrated with a webcam. Besides capture video from a webcam, this program allows user to do surveillance on their PC. The interface of this program is designed to be a user-friendly concept easy to handle. A brief introduction of the concept of video surveillance system is fo llowed by the discussion of design consideration and design verification.