B4W: A Smart Wireless Intruder Detection System

B4W: A Smart Wireless Intruder Detection System

Sharma, Suryansh (TU Delft Networked Systems)
Venkata T., Prabhakar (Indian Institute of Science)
Singhal, Shalakha (Indian Institute of Science)
Kuma, Gogineni Gopi Sunanth (Indian Institute of Science)
Venkatesha Prasad, Ranga Rao (TU Delft Networked Systems)

2023

Surveillance and monitoring are highly critical in many application scenarios like wildlife conservation, restricted areas such as nuclear spillover, and border security. Moreover, in these scenarios, intrusions do not happen frequently thus, conventional surveillance is overkill and expensive that also requires extensive human involvement which can be arduous, expensive, and inefficient. To address these issues we propose an end-to-end smart acoustic surveillance solution for intrusion detection using a simple low-cost system called Balls for Walls (B4 W). The objective is to create a network of sensors that could also be remotely launched. The nodes responsible for surveillance employ audio sensors which are packaged within hard balls thus allowing the launch of these sensors from a distance of over 500 m. We use microphones for detecting human activity inferred through sensing the sound of footsteps against background noise. We evaluate the systems across five different terrain types. We propose a novel, low complexity detection algorithm called SEED which leverages signal energy and shape to distinguish humans from ambient noise. B4 W offers a maximum detection rate of 98.3% on dry leaves and a low false alarm rate of 0.9%. The system is energy efficient to last a maximum of 170 days and it is orientation agnostic. The proposed system has been extensively tested across varying terrains and ambient signal scenarios to demonstrate its efficacy.

Wireless Sensor Networks
Localization
Surveillance
Intruder Detection
Acoustic Sensors
Edge Computing

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ead04e9e-c8a4-47b2-924d-47627ec29005

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279723

IEEE

2024-04-23

978-1-5386-7463-5

Proceedings of the ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communication

ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2023-05-28 → 2023-06-01, Rome, Italy

IEEE International Conference on Communications, 1938-1883

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© 2023 Suryansh Sharma, Prabhakar Venkata T., Shalakha Singhal, Gogineni Gopi Sunanth Kuma, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad