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Building a Home Security System with Raspberry Pi

You're reading from Building a Home Security System with Raspberry Pi Build your own sophisticated modular home security system using the popular Raspberry Pi board

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781782175278

Length 190 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Raspberry Pi

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Matthew Poole

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up Your Raspberry Pi

2. Connecting Things to Your Pi with GPIO FREE CHAPTER

3. Extending Your Pi to Connect More Things

4. Adding a Magnetic Contact Sensor

5. Adding a Passive Infrared Motion Sensor

6. Adding Cameras to Our Security System

7. Building a Web-Based Control Panel

8. A Miscellany of Things

9. Putting It All Together

Index

The Raspberry Pi camera module

The Raspberry Pi Camera Module is an official Raspberry Pi accessory that works with all models of the Pi, and can be used to take high-definition stills and video images. It connects directly to the Pi board's camera serial interface (CSI) port, which is dedicated to these modules to enable high-speed operation.

The camera itself is a 5 megapixel fixed-focus sensor supporting 1080p, 720p, and VGA video modes and still captures.

The official Raspberry Pi Camera Module

You can also obtain housings for the camera modules, which, unless you're going to build your own enclosure for the camera system, I recommend you use.

Raspberry Pi camera housings come in various colors and styles

Connecting the camera module

As previously mentioned, the module connects directly to the Raspberry Pi board via its dedicated camera interfaces, as shown in the following image. When connecting the camera, the contact side of the ribbon cable is toward the HDMI connector and the blue side...

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Authors (1)

Poole

Poole

Matthew Poole is a systems engineer based near Southampton on the south coast of England, with over 20 years of industry experience. After graduating in electronics and communications engineering, he went on to train as and become an air traffic engineer for Civil Aviation Authority, UK, working on microprocessor-based control and communications systems. Later, he became a software architect and mobile technology specialist, working for several consultancies and global organizations in both hands-on architecture and product-management roles . He is now a partner at Connecting Objects, a boutique systems consultancy focusing on the design of Bluetooth and other wireless-based IoT systems, taking ideas from concept to prototype. He is also the Director of Technology for Mobile Onboard, a leading UK-based transport technology company specializing in bus connectivity and mobile ticketing systems. He is also the author of Building a Home Security System with Raspberry Pi, Packt Publishing. You can find his blog at http://cubiksoundz.com and LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/cubik, or you can reach him on Twitter at @cubiksoundz.

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