SmartGuard: A Deep Learning and IoT-Enabled Smart Surveillance Framework for Data-Driven Community Safety and Threat Prevention
Conventional closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems record crime rather than prevent it. This paper presents SmartGuard, a smart surveillance framework that combines a fine-tuned YOLOv8-nano deep learning model with an IoT alert pipeline to detect masked or disguised individuals in real time and notify residents befo...