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BeagleBone: Creative Projects for Hobbyists

You're reading from   BeagleBone: Creative Projects for Hobbyists Build amazing BeagleBone projects and maximize your skills with projects that walk, talk, and fly!

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Product type Course
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788395656
Length 1020 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rodolfo Giometti Rodolfo Giometti
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Charles A. Hamilton Charles A. Hamilton
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Richard Grimmett Richard Grimmett
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Chapter 8. Intrusion Detection System

Nowadays intrusion detection systems are quite common but really expensive. In this chapter, I'm going to show how we can implement a cheap intrusion detection system with a reasonable quality using our BeagleBone Black and two (or more) webcams.

The system will be able to alert the user by sending an e-mail with a photo of the intruder.

The basics of functioning

As mentioned earlier, we're going to use two webcams connected with our BeagleBone Black via a USB bus. Then, we'll install and run a special motion detection software that is able to detect a movement into a dynamic scene. When the program detects a movement, it will take one or more photos of the moving object and then send the pictures via e-mail to a user's account.

Setting up the hardware

This time, the connections are very simple since they are just done using several USB cables.

In the previous chapters, we have seen how to set up a webcam (see Chapter 3, Aquarium...

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