Software Implementation of a PC-Based Home Surveillance System

This report is written upon the completion of the two semesters of Final Year Project
course in Electrical & Electronic Engineering programme. This project is entitled as
"Software Implementation of a PC-Based Home Surveillance System". The main
objective of this project is to design and build software system, emphasizing on GUI
for the PC-based home surveillance system. The developed software is called the
"Home Guard System".
The "Home Guard System" is designed to scan and display a number of input signals
using sensory interface and represents them on the computer interface. The input and
output modules are interfaced with the computer via a serial port. Microcontroller is
also implemented to translate and manipulate the data received from the serial port
into meaningful functions for prototype demonstration.
The scope of study for this report mainly involves the software development process;
the tools, services and packages available in Java that can be used for this project; and
implementation of microcontrollers, specifically the PIC 16F84 to be used in the
prototype development and construction.
This project development is divided into three main modules, which are window
module, hardware module and prototype module. In the window module, the GUI of
this application is designed. The hardware module involves the communication
establishment with the computer's serial port, while the prototype module consists of
a circuit that implement PIC 16F84 as its processor.
This project has been successfully completed. Several recommendations are proposed
to improve the current system, and come up with a better presentable, secure and
reliable system with additional functions.