Facial recognition with IoT based alert system using OpenCV.

With the growing number of security breaches, the necessity for better security procedures and protocols has grown as well. According to a reports, lakhs of robberies are occurring in the United States of America each year. Though India is a developing country, these types of robberies are considerably more common. The primary purpose of this work is to develop a security solution that can help combat this. This paper primarily aims to design a software that is built from the ground up for detection of face, leading to facial recognition and finally, providing information to the user or the owner of the software if any unfamiliar face is there which is not a part of the database. The aim is to notify the owner about any unfamiliar person that is present and unrecognized by the camera. In case if the face is not recognized, alerts will be sent via SMS and Email. Some software has limited forward compatibility and can be difficult to run on weak hardware, thus it is necessary to have a software which is more powerful and easily run on the weak hardware. The proposed work has a great scope in the future applications ranging from simple automatic locking systems in households to an attendance system in corporate offices and even for an antiterrorism system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]