Monitoring & Tracking

IP Camera

Monitoring and tracking can be done by using IP camera

Using IP Camera in smart homes:

It is now possible to prevent property damage and losses by monitoring activity through the use of cameras that are streaming live video, so many people are turning to network IP cameras connected to the Internet to keep their homes and businesses safe. In smart homes, IP camera is used for enhancing the security system, help to detect motions that happen at home. 

You will need to use an IP Camera with high resolution and it is recommend to be wireless so you can connect it and monitor it easily.
You will need to connect it to you router and configure it by using port forwarding.
You can also get a camera that has some capabilities like Day/Night or Indoor/Outdoor according to your usage.
After camera configuration you will go forward to write some code which you will use to make analysis which will be illustrated later.

Motion Detection using IP Camera 

You can use the motion detection system that can be found in some of IP cameras or you can make a simple code that can be used to capture images

then after you can collect an album of some captured images and use them to make image processing by MatLab so you can detect any motion happened.

Through image processing you will be able to detect any change in the frames and contents of the images and you will be able to detect the amount of the change like if it is very big which means it is a human, or it is medium which can be a pet or light change which is an insect or something like that.

You can also build another program to record a video or audio files and make those videos timed.