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Motion detector phone dialer
Motion detector on outdoor floodlights provides inexpensive telephone warning
 
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Problem: Your home's motion detecting outdoor flood light turns on and you are not home to see it.

Suggestion: An inexpensive, weather protected cell or land line phone type dialer (possibly created from old/used cell phones) could be wired into the motion detector circuit. A pre-designated number is dialed when the light turns on. The cell phone would be constantly charged by the a/c current available at the floodlight power source. The land line would not require charging.

I know that it is common for security equipment to dial phones when alarms go off. However, this concept would be based upon inexpensive home motion detecting electronics, used/disposed of cell phones, or telephone land lines. I would hesitate to have the cell phones dial 9-11 (though non-subscribing cell phones supposedly have that ability in the U.S.) due to chances of the 9-11 lines being flooded with false alarms.

Similar low cost setups for automobiles could be created using obsolete cell phones and inexpensive motion detectors.


Sunstone, Oct 22 2005



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       I thought home alarm systems could already alert people by phone, pager or email...?   

       You just seem to be proposing the same thing, but cheaper.

DrCurry, Oct 22 2005
  

       No one ever talks about stillness detectors. I bet those could be useful. Mom, mom, grandma hasn't moved in 20 minutes!

theircompetitor, Oct 22 2005
  


 
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