Driveway motion detection

stranger12

Anyone here aware of decent driveway laser beam motion detection and garden motion detection?

I need something that can work with phones or call me

bluesnake

You have to take into account cats, snow, falling leaves, trash blowing, bin and post men and rain.

Microwave movement sensors are not bad indoors, unsure how they perform outside. Although reduced detection, they will also travel through walls, glass, unlike pir

Often the sensors on road barriers consist of a coil under the surface, and your car induces a small voltage when it crosses it.

Personally I would ue a camera, and/or magnetic switches on the gate doors. You also get a switch with connections on each side to make the circuit, so if the trip wire is cut or puled the circuit will make.

WobblyDog

If you have a window overlooking the driveway, I would try a network camera with motion detection first. You would want one that allows you to define areas of interest as well as motion sensitivity. An internal camera wouldn't work well at night unless you have external lighting.

stranger12

I did buy the ring stick up camera so will see

Did see some uk companies making laser beam sensors but very expensive at cost of £200 for sensor and £250 for gsm caller plus ...

Jonesya

For what purpose?

For most houses you'd be getting endless false alarms - postman/leaflet delivery/door to door salesmen calling/charity collection and clothing bags etc.

I'd have thought a camera would be better, use a recorder with motion sensitivity to trigger for movement only. Then review in event of a problem.

brightontraveller

You’d need a combination of latching to eliminate a high % of false alarms (you,d still get them though ) ideally heat ,movement, pressure, beam break, visual, timed zones, monitored etc and if you have to ask chances are you.d not know how to install the combination correctly for it to be effective enough? Standard external dual latching sensor and gsm voice dialler would offer limited protection (text version are very dependent on network as to how long texts take ?) recommendations would require more detailed information e.g. location land layout obviously a system giving protection in a built up area would be different than rural location.

stranger12

It is a 7 by 7 m driveway and I just want to protect my cars but don't want the thing to go off constantly

Same with garden

Do you have any brands in mind

brightontraveller

stranger12 wrote: »

It is a 7 by 7 m driveway and I just want to protect my cars but don't want the thing to go off constantly

Same with garden

Do you have any brands in mind

What’s your budget?

stranger12

Don't want to spend too much but depends really

If i get something that give me confidence maybe few hubdrad pounds

brightontraveller

stranger12 wrote: »

Don't want to spend too much but depends really

If i get something that give me confidence maybe few hubdrad pounds

Nothing anywhere for that budget I'm afraid money saving not miracle forum :rotfl:

If you have PC and network capabilities i.e router etc Get IP cam that has zonable Motion Detection £30- 50

http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/hd-ip-camera

Before you buy ensure it has rj45 plug and not bnc

bluesnake

Personally I prefer wired cameras, as they often can handle higher bit rate transfer.

Good free software for a PC is iSpy. You may not want to leave your PC on 24/7, so you get cameras with built in web servers that will store your movement in the cloud, and they will also contact your android phone when movement snd/or sound is detected. You can often also view the camera in real time on your phone. Some of the cloud camera provider services will charge you an annual rate, but other are free.

I suppose you already have a cheap webcam, well try it out and you will learn that there is a lot of false triggers, it is often best to monitor a narrow strip rather than the whole area and select every single cell, and when placed high up you will never capture the face of a person wearing a cap.

Ideally, you also want one camera to look at the other camera as one camera alone will not cover 7x7m

To be honest at work one guy wired a rape alarm to his back garden door, and he was very happy with that.