An Idea has surfaced

Today after the capstone's class entrepreneur dynamic and seminar. I approached the professor with a prospect for a capstone project which is the following:

We can use temperature sensors that detect discrepancies in temperatures in a room with predefined conditions. For example the system must be set up knowing the default temperature of the room the system is set up in. If someone attempts to break into a room through a window the temperature will be altered due to the discrepancy in temperatures of the outside environment with that of the inside environment, thus an alarm should sound. Motion Sensors can also be placed around a room to detect heat to prevent a human being from walking about undetected. The idea is to create a security system that detects temperature discrepancies and motion detectors that may indicate an intruder or perhaps a fire where the system is installed. This should protect against intruders and fires.
Also once triggered the cameras will activate and begin recording the events taking place and should store this online for evidence. A computer will be the mainframe for the complete system. An alarm will be connected as well and may require some additional hardware programming to have it sound an alarm as soon as the computer deems it necessary or not, due to current conditions.
Add a feature to allow the motion detectors to activate a camera that streams video onto the internet so from anywhere you can view your house’s condition. Also you can view a historial of sensor activity online given every hour. Set the frequency at which videos are recorded as well as quality.
There are systems that separately include heat detection and motion detection. Ours would combine the best of both worlds. The software would include a sandbox application that allows the person setting up the equipment to draw the layout of the house and place the locations of the sensors. So they appear in the application. Should be able to detect the amount of detectors connected to the device.


The idea will be polished up of course to write a proper proposal which is due in a few weeks, September 8, 2008 I think...maybe...

The professor commented that the idea was acceptable so the battle against the storming of brains is over and now we can focus on research, budgets, time frames for milestone completions of the project.