GalaxyGuy Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterJames Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GalaxyGuy Posted July 16, 2014 Author Share Posted July 16, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew.brough Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 *cough* http://www.videofied.com/eu/uk/home/ Quote www.securitywarehouse.co.uk/catalog/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norman Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 How would that stop the alarm going off @ 3am? Quote Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew.brough Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 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. Quote www.securitywarehouse.co.uk/catalog/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norman Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 So it wouldn't Quote Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goncall Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew.brough Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 So it wouldn't It would have stopped anyone being disturbed though . . . Quote www.securitywarehouse.co.uk/catalog/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norman Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 But that's not what I asked. Quote Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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