Community Based Home Security System Using Wireless Mesh Network

Home security is refers to crimes prevention such as burglaries and kidnapping. As a preventive measure, a resident may install an ip camera but this method is quite costly because the resident needs to buy a personal computer, router, and software. Furthermore, this method also only benefit to the resident but not to the other neighborhoods. Consequently, the crime prevention in residential area which is the issue of community becomes merely an individual concern. Community based home security system using wireless mesh is a prototype system that promoting on proactive crime prevention through residential neighborhoods involvement. The community based home security system using wireless mesh is suitable to achieve the objective because it offers high scalability, inexpensive, and centralized system. This project objective is to develop a prototype home security system based on wireless mesh network that is scalable, cost effective, and community based application. We applied standard SDLC project development methodology. As a result, a prototype of community based home security system using openmesh wireless mesh routers and pocket size computer raspberry PI is introduced. The system networking can be expanded throughout residential area by deploying additional openmesh wireless mesh router. The cost of the deployment can be shared among house residential. Thus, increases the neighborhood involvements towards achieving the common interest initiative, the home security.