Had a false alarm last night 1am while asleep.  All sirens blaring.  SMS came through saying sunroom DT.   Being a dual-tec I was suspicious of a false alarm and the adrenaline was pumping when I went down to check it out...  I was confronted by a huge moth flapping about in the sunroom that had triggered the DT7550.  Terminated the moth, but it took me ages to get back to sleep after that

 

If only we had a sensor that could accurately differentiate between humans and anything else. Picking up on brainwaves or the like. I suppose most amateur criminals don't have much going on in that area though!

Never say never but at the moment it is quite difficult as no technology is clever enough to know that a moth is blocking the heat source it was looking at

I suppose the only way would be some distanced dual detector pair that could determine the absolute position and dimensions of any object with respect to each other.  Sounds more expensive than a single false alarm every couple of years though.

*cough* http://www.videofied.com/eu/uk/home/

How would that stop the alarm going off @ 3am?

How would that stop the alarm going off @ 3am?

It would silently alert the ARC who would see it was a moth and not disturb anyones sleep.

So it wouldn't

It would silently alert the ARC who would see it was a moth and not disturb anyones sleep.

what if it was a burglar dressed as a moth

So it wouldn't

It would have stopped anyone being disturbed though . . .

But that's not what I asked.