4030 | International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.4, No.6 (Dec 2014) Research Article International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology E-ISSN 2277 – 4106, P-ISSN 2347 - 5161 ©2014 INPRESSCO ® , All Rights Reserved Available at http://inpressco.com/category/ijcet Implementation of a Framework for Securing ATMs using Digital Image Processing Kande Archana Ȧ* , P.Bhaksara Reddy Ḃ , M. Yashwanth Ȧ and D. Neelesh Varma Ȧ Ȧ Department of Computer Science & Engineering, MLR Institute of Technology, JNTU Hyderabad, India Ḃ Department of ECE, MLR Institute of Technology, JNTU Hyderabad, India Accepted 30 Nov 2014, Available online 01 Dec 2014, Vol.4, No.6 (Dec 2014) Abstract Due to technological innovations in the banking domain, ATMs came into existence which facilitates customers to avail money round the clock. Moreover, the ATM network of one bank collaborates with other banks so as to enable customers to draw money from any bank's ATM. As ATMs are equipped with money there is possibility of robberies. In fact there were many such incidents reported. This paper proposes a framework which will provide high security in ATMs. The framework includes a PIR sensor, camera, processor, and microcontroller. When a person enters into ATM cabin, the PIR sensor can detect it. Then camera starts capturing video which is analyzed by a processor. The processor is capable of identifying abnormal incidents. When processor reports an unusual incident, the microcontroller causes the ATM door to be closed automatically. It also sends SMS alert to police station. The person who misbehaved in ATM is caught inside. Thus the proposed framework provides high security to ATMs. The experimental results revealed that the framework can provide high security to ATMs. Keywords: Microcontroller, PIR Sensor, Processor, Camera. Introduction 1 Banking sector plays a pivotal role a country’s economy. One of its services is dispensing money through Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). As ATMs operate round the clock and interoperability with other banks, thanks to distributed computing, they get rid of time and geographical restrictions for monetary transactions. Moreover they are supporting a host of other services such as money transfer besides withdrawal of money. This led to ubiquitous usage of these wonderful machines across the globe. There have been plenty of ATM fraud cases reported in all counties where ATMs are operated. Security of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) is to be given paramount importance as financial institutions like banks heavily depend on them for facilitating monetary transactions. The term security refers to many aspects such as physical, transactional and integrity, customer identity integrity, device operation integrity, and customer security. Various attempts have been made in developed countries to have emergency PIN system but could not succeed due to lack of cooperation between banking lobby and police. With technological advances in ATM software, fraud cases are significantly reduced unless PIN is compromised. Though there is transactional security improved to the level of reliability, the misbehaving cases are alarming. *Corresponding author Kande Archana is working as Assistant Professor; Dr.P.Bhaksara Reddy as Director Cum Principal; M. Yashwanth and D. Neelesh Varma are students Human misbehavior with respect to ATM with the motive of stealing money of other human beings or banks include forced withdrawal, stealing entire ATM, breaking ATM machine using gas or explosive or other means to avail cash illegally, digging a concealed tunnel under ATM, targeting women and forcing them to withdraw money and hand over to criminal, attaching fake keypads to ATM for obtaining PINs, getting ATM cards and PINs forcibly from other customers in ATM cabin and so on. There is little research found in the literature towards an automatic misbehavior detection and notification systems. In this context there is inevitable and indispensable need for a highly secure ATM cabin that can safeguard interests of customers and banks. However, it is very challenging problem to be addressed. In this research work, a novel framework is proposed to be designed and implemented for securing ATMs using digital image processing. The framework makes use of inter-disciplinary devices and services in order to build a fool proof security system for ATMs. The focus of the research is to protect ATM security by studying human actions that enter ATM cabin and making necessary steps when misbehavior is reported. However, defining misbehavior patterns and training the proposed system with such know how is NP-hard. This research is intended to achieve this and help customers of banking sector to avail ATM services in safe and secure environment. As this has high significance and real world implications across the globe and can influence human lives of the entire planet, it is the motivation behind taking up this research work.