Building a Home Security System with Elixir and Nerves

Nerves is a framework for crafting bulletproof embedded software written in Elixir and deployed onto the rock-solid, nine-nines Erlang/OTP platform running directly on top of the Linux kernel.

I will show how to get started with Nerves with the motivating example of a home security system running on a Raspberry Pi. To disarm the security system, you need to step in front of the camera and give a big smile.

In addition to Nerves and Elixir, we will use deep learning with TensorFlow for face recognition.

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1. Arto Bendiken Building a Home Security System with Elixir and Nerves
2. Nerves? Elixir?
3. Nerves (nerves-project.org) is the true killer app of Elixir. It’s not yet widely known outside of the Elixir community, but that is changing quickly (even in this very room, right now). Nerves is doing to embedded development and Elixir what Rails did for web development and Ruby. The current statistics from the Elixir community on Slack as of February 2019: #phoenix 21,100+ members, #nerves 1,800+ members The Killer App for Elixir?
4. What is Nerves? Nerves (nerves-project.org) enables you to “craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir”. Nerves is an umbrella project consisting of tooling and libraries enabling the development of robust, reliable firmware for smart hardware devices written in a high-level functional language (Elixir) and running on a carrier-grade runtime (Erlang/OTP).
5. What is Nerves? • Produces firmware images as small as 12 MB, which includes the Linux kernel, the Erlang/OTP runtime, and your Nerves application • Firmware images are burned to an SD card for deployment to target hardware • The firmware boots in a few seconds: your application code can be running in as little 3-4 seconds after power on • An incredibly stable runtime platform with low and predictable steady-state RAM consumption: on the order of 8 MB, and your application probably will fit in 32 MB Linux kernel and rootfs (Buildroot) Erlang/OTP runtime (BEAM) Your Nerves application (Elixir) Firmware image
6. Hobbyist Hardware for Nerves Raspberry Pi 3 Model A/B/B+ (RPi3) BeagleBone Black/Green/Blue (BBB/BBG/BBGW)
7. • This is what the Erlang platform (OTP, BEAM) was designed for (telecomms switches)—good soft-realtime support • Pattern matching (with bitstring support) is great for implementing wire protocols robustly • The real world and real hardware is inherently concurrent, asynchronous, and unpredictable—message passing with the actor model is a good way to model that • Fault tolerance and error recovery actually matter (just let it crash—so long as the user doesn’t notice) Why Elixir for Embedded Development?
8. Hobbyist Hardware for Nerves Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ (RPi3) • $35 MSRP • 1.4 GHz Cortex-A53 (4× cores) • 1 GB LPDDR2 RAM • 4× USB ports, 1× Ethernet port, 1× HDMI port, etc • 40× GPIO pins • 802.11ac Wi-Fi (dual band) • Bluetooth 4.1 and LE BeagleBone Green (BBG) • $44 MSRP • 1.0 GHz Cortex-A8 • 512 MB DDR3 RAM • 1× USB port, 1× Ethernet port, micro-HDMI as add-on, etc • 92× GPIO pins and 2× Grove connectors • Open-source hardware, customizable for production designs
9. Hobbyist Hardware for Nerves Seeed Studio’s Grove System 100s of sensors and actuators
10. Commercial Products Based on Nerves Commercial Radar Interface http://www.rosepoint.com/commercial-radar-interface/
11. Future Products Based on Nerves Anything and everything… Your imagination is the limit.
12. Hello, Blinky $ git clone https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_examples
14. Project Structure $ tree blinky/
15. Firmware Update The Slow & Hard Way: $ mix firmware.burn
16. Firmware Update The Quick & Easy Way: $ mix firmware.gen.script && ./upload.sh
17. Home Alarm System Work in Progress
18. Demo
19. Remote Console $ iex --name me@0.0.0.0 --cookie pivorak --remsh home@nerves.local $ ssh nerves.local
20. Remote Debugging iex> Logger.configure(level: :debug)
21. Local Debugging iex> :observer.start()
22. Technologies • Elixir • Erlang/OTP • C++ • OpenCV • FaceNet • Dlib • Nerves • Linux kernel • gRPC • Protocol Buffers • Python • Go? • Ruby? • etc
23. Camera Driver C++, V4L2, OpenCV → Elixir
24. Alarm System Elixir, GenStateMachine (gen_statem)
25. Siren State Diagram
26. System State Diagram
27. Home Protocol & API Elixir, gRPC, PB ↔ Python, Go, Ruby, etc
28. Camera Client Python, OpenCV, gRPC ↔ gRPC, Elixir
29. Face Recognition… OpenCV, Dlib, FaceNet
30. See https://nerves-project.org
31. See Also https://gokrazy.org
32. Дякую! Find me at: https://ar.to & @bendiken