PROTOCOL ON DETECTING BURGLARY The main objective of the project is to intimate the police that someone is trying to make unauthorized entry to any secured area such as shops, residential houses, banks etc. after close hours. This project uses a microcontroller from 8051 family. Also an external memory EEPROM is interfaced to it for storing the number to which call is to be made. The module is placed at the entrance with microcontroller interfaced with a switch, which will detect the opening of the door and will automatically dial to the police telephone number that is stored in the EEPROM through DTMF encoder interfaced to the microcontroller. Keypad is used for changing the password and a 16X2 LCD is used for display. The power supply consists of a step down transformer 230/12V, which steps down the voltage to 12V AC. This is converted to DC using a Bridge rectifier. The ripples are removed using a capacitive filter and it is then regulated to +5V using a voltage regulator 7805 which is required for the operation of the microcontroller and other components.