2009 International Forum on Computer Science-Technology and Applications
A Smart Home Security System Based on 3G
Yongqiang Zhang Guozhen Zhao
College of Information and Electrical College of Information and Electrical
Engineering Engineering
Hebei University of Engineering Hebei University of Engineering
Handan , China Handan , China
zdh03_233@126.com 276779604@qq.com
Abstract—This paper introduces a Smart Home Security
System based on the technology of ARM9 and 3G
communication. It uses S3C2410 hardware platform and
Embedded Linux Operating System to implement the real-time
display of the video images on the development platform. It
presents the structure and work principles of the system, puts
emphasis on the hardware processing circuits and design of
video image software as well as the foundation of 3G remote
communication. Another ,It carefully analyzes and studies
Video data compression of USB digital camera and the 3G
network transmission. Thus, a design of a convenient and
economical device on real-time video capture and transmission
is realized.
Keywords- ARM; 3G; S3C2410; Linux; video monitoring
I. FOREWORD
With the continuous improvement of people's living
standard, people pay more attention on their own personal
safety and property security; Contemporary, The rapid
development of the economy along with the city's population
sharp increasing, add a new problem to the city social order,
to protect the security of personal property and prevent
thieving incident happened, every family must have its own
security system. In their traditional family system anti-theft
alarm, fire alarm, and gas leak alarm subsystems’ function
are single , false alarm rate is higher, it can only achieve
local alarm, can not achieve remote alarm in real time to
reduce losses, but also record evidence of a crime for later
inspection. To resolve these shortcomings and scarcity, and
meet people's needs for intelligent home, therefore, adopting
image processing technology and 3G communication
technology the paper studies and designs smart home
security system based on ARM9 and 3G[1].
II. 3G NETWORKS
3G is the abbreviation of the 3rd Generation, which
refers to the third generation mobile communication
technology. Relative to the first generation analogue phones
(1G) and the second generation GSM, TDMA digital mobile
phones (2G), in generally speaking, the 3G mobile phones
refers to a new mobile communication system which
combine the wireless communication with the multimedia
communication such as the international internet. It can
process the images, music, video stream and other forms of
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DOI 10.1109/IFCSTA.2009.193
Yongjian Zhang
College of Information and Electrical
Engineering
Hebei University of Engineering
Handan , China
120030009@qq.com
media, which can also provides many kinds of information
services, such as web page browsing, conference call and e-
commerce. In order to provide such services, the wireless
network must be able to support different data transmission
speed, which means that it must respectively support the
transmission speed of 2Mbps (megabit / second),
384kbps(kilobits/ second) as well as 144kbps in the indoor,
outdoor and vehicular environments at least[2]. In current,
the 3G mobile phones (3G handsets) have three kinds of
standard criteria in the world. They are the WCDMA
standard in Europe, the CDMA2000 standard in America and
the TD－SCDMA standard, which is produced by Chinese
scientists. The three mainstream wireless interface standards
of 3G communication determined by International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) is respectively W-CDMA
(Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), CDMA2000
(code division multiple access 2000), and TDS-CDMA
(Time Division-Synchronous CDMA).
III. THE STRUCTURE AND WORK PRINCIPLES OF
THE SYSTEM
The system is mainly composed of alarm input, control
unit, video processing, 3G wireless communication and
alarm output, and its working principle as shown in Figure 1.
when the system works, the control unit detected circulate
door magnetic sensor installed above the door, infrared,
smoke, gas sensor, once there is illegal personnel have
intruded, gas leak or firing, etc., it will immediately issue a
warning signal to the CPU[3]. CPU will determine which
and where the alarm is, the scene immediately sends a sound
and light alarm and takes emergency treatment, by
controlling the camera to capture video images, and then put
collected video image data into buffer, and then run the
image display program which is transplanted to Embedded
target platform, for processing and displaying the buffer zone
of the image data. Further, which can be saved into a data
file format and labeled UDP packets, through the 3G
network send images to the remote user mobile phone. In
addition, even if the host is away, he may master the
situation at home through the 3G network, and set defending
or withdrawing mode to achieve remote monitoring function.

Figure 1. Work principles of the system
FLASH SDRAM
Camera Video
3G
video processing
signal module network
ARM
(S3C2410)
Sensors’ Alarm alarm
signals intput output
Figure 2. System hardware structure
IV. SYSTEM HARDWARE DESIGN
System hardware structure as shown in Figure 2:
A. ARM master module
ARM main control module is composed of the ARM
controller, FLASH, SDRAM and related peripheral circuits.
The ARM controller's main functions are operating alarm
input and output I / O port and other parts , at the same time,
achieving the acceptance and transmission of video data,
GPRS network communication and other functions,
Therefore, the system need to choose more general-purpose I
/ O port and rich external resources for being easy to build
chips of peripheral circuits. So, select Samsung S3C2410 as
the system’s processor, AM29LV160DB and 28F128J3A as
FLASH, which store separately bootloader guide code and
source code. And two HY57V561620 as SDRAM for
constituting the capacity of 64MB high-speed dynamic
random access memory.
S3C2410 are the SOC chip based on ARM9T, low-
power, high performance, very suitable for embedded
product development. With LCD controller, 3-channel
UART, 4-channel DMA, IIC and SPI bus interface, 117
Universal I / O port, two USB host interface and a USB
device interface and other resources. These resources based
on S3C2410 can meet overall system requirements for the
processor[4].
V id eo a p p lic atio n
V ide o4 L in u x
E q u ipm en t d riv e r
V id eo c o lle ctio n
mobile e qu ip m e n t
Figure 3. Video collection sketch map
alarming
B. video processing module
For video processing, Linux is achieved through
Video4Linux, which widely uses bus standard and provides a
wide range of interface functions for the application of Video
equipment which includes the popular TV cards, video
capture card and USB camera and so on .For USB camera
itself,drive program need to provide basic I / O interface
functions including the achievement of open, read, write,
close, The interruption of processing, memory mapping
function, as well as the control interface of the ioctl function
to achieve for I / O channel and so on[5]. Linux video
collection sketch map as shown in figure 3:
C. Alarm input and output circuits
All the detectors and alarm devices used by the system
are connected to controller through the GPIO to complete
alarm input and output functions. However, these input and
output signals have a very strong current, which has lager
effect(interference) on the system, so the system use
respectively photoelectric isolation chip TLP521 and relays
for alarm input and output signals to minimize impact which
an external signal produces on the system.
V. SYSTEM SOFTWARE DESIGN
System software mainly includes bootloader, operating
system, file system and user applications. Bootloader using
VIVI, mainly used to initialize the processor and hardware
equipment, download system image and initialize the
operating to be ready to implement. Operating System use
Linux2.4 core with powerful network and excellent
transplant and a powerful process, interrupt, memory, and
equipment Penny rationale to support a variety of file
system, Built a complete TCP / IP protocol and the system
needed for a variety of devices such as the driver, used to
manage a wide range of applications software to achieve
real-time systems and multi-task. File system using EXT3
file system, the system all the files and directory tree
structure to the formation of the overall directory hierarchy
in order to facilitate system management of documents and
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equipment. User applications to be completed by a series of a
function of the corresponding functional components, start
including alarm monitoring procedures, image acquisition
compression procedures, 3G communication procedures[6],
etc. So to all devices on the system to prepare the driver and Camera_open()
the corresponding user applications in order to achieve the
required system functions of the system, the main program Camera_get_capability()
flow shown in Figure 4:
Camera_get_picture()
A. Flow chart of Linux video collection as shown in figure
5:
Camera_grab_init()
B. Video compression
Comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the
Images processing
popular networks video encoding MPEG-4, H.264 in the Camera_grab_image() and application
market, the system uses a simple and efficient MPEG-4
algorithm. MPEG-4 (officially named 150/IEC14496) was
published in November 1998 with the characteristics of low
bit rate, transmission rate between 4.8 -64kb/s, the resolution N Whether stop video
of 176X144, which uses a very narrow frame of the collection?
reconstruction and data compression technology, with Y
minimal data in order to get the best image quality. MPEG-4
is based on the object content of the image compression Camera_close()
coding technology, and compared to the previous
compression standards, it was first introduced to study the colse
visual, visual objects, including video object, static texture
objects, mesh objects, objects such as human faces[7]. Figure 5. Flow chart of Linux video collection.
C. 3G Communication Program
3G communication flow subroutine in Figure 5 below: start

start
initialization
system
initialization parameter
configuration
system setup
whether there is N
Whether sensors is N alarm?
accept
abnormal ? message
Y
Y whether3 G is N Open Whether it intalls Y
send alarm remote camera
message parameter ？
monitoring
N
Y send control
Open the camera and end signal
collect
and compress video
Figure 6. 3G communication program flow

send to mobile 3G communication program with AT commands to

Figure 4. The system main program flow chart
prepare, including 3G module initialization, 3G network
parameter configuration, alarm message to send, message
receive and make calls, such as part of the base TCP / IP
protocol to complete the wireless data transceiver. GPRS
module used to initialize + + +, ATV0, ATH and
ATE0V0Q0 such instructions, enter the command separately

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to MC35i, data, hang up and return the results of the form of
status. 3G network parameter configuration using AT +
CGDCONT = 1, "IP", "CMNET" command, respectively, set
up 3G network identifier PDP mobile scene IP, APN access
point for CMNET (China Mobile Net), the use of ATDT ***
********#: for dial-up settings. Short message and
telephone parts of AT +? =? And other commands to achieve
the corresponding functions[8].
VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS
ARM-based embedded, video processing technology and
3G wireless networks Smart Home Security System, full use
of embedded in the image processing, network
communication on the advantages and the existing 3G
network resources, not only achieve a rapid security alarm,
record evidence and features such as remote monitoring, and
high reliability, low False Alarm, cost-effective and less loss
of advantage. At present, the system can also be hardware
and software upgrades and integration of new functional
modules to meet the intelligent home security on the future
development needs. Tested showed that the stable operation
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of the system to achieve the design requirement. The system
also can be used in banks, libraries and museums, such as
required security and remote monitoring of the place.
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