Surveillance plays a crucial role in day-to-day life. A typical surveillance system continuously monitors its vicinity and stores the surveillance data locally. This may end up in lots of memory and energy wastage. Moreover, the surveillance records are under security threat, when the surveillance system is seized or damaged by the intruders. In this paper, a new design for surveillance using smartphone along with the passive infrared (PIR) sensor and the microcontroller unit (MCU) is proposed. The PIR sensor is attached to the smartphone through the MCU to detect motion. The video is captured only when the motion is detected and the short message services alert is sent to the user straight away. To overcome the memory restrictions of smartphone and to ensure the safe storage of surveillance records, it is uploaded in cloud, and the link is sent to the user through email. The proposed intelligent surveillance system offers cost effective, storage effective, energy efficient, and secured solution as it uses the computation and communication capabilities of the smartphone and the storage capabilities of cloud.