Point – A smart house sitter

Re:Point – A smart house sitter by owenmarshall on Monday November 03, 2014 @09:58AM (#8551047)

My apartment was broken into because the security system was disabled. The security system was disabled because it used a cheap glass break sensor that would trip if both my dogs barked at the same time - both, not just one. Naturally this was untenable.

I'm a bit leery about glass break sensors, to say the least.

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Re:Point – A smart house sitter by nmattisson on Monday November 03, 2014 @01:39PM (#8552576)

We're combining data from different sensors, so if Point hears broken glass, and then notices the temperature changing or street noise being louder than usual we can more accurately detect broken windows.

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Re:Point – A smart house sitter by owenmarshall on Monday November 03, 2014 @10:32PM (#8555024)

OK, this is actually a really cool approach to what I gather is a common problem!

Does Point try to learn a baseline for temperature/acoustics/etc., and trigger when a deviation occurs? Or do you just say "when glass breaks + these other thresholds are tripped, ..."

Because the latter would probably solve the problem fairly well, but the former would be outstanding.

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