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Need help! Looking for sensors technology

August 24, 2014 6:46:31 AM

I'll try my best to explain exactly what I'm looking for. This is mainly for use for car surveillance or protection as I don't want to get into why car alarms and even dash cams (of which I have BOTH) do not really do anything to prevent attacks/damages etc., only tells you after the fact that something happened and hope that u got it on camera.

I'm looking for something that uses sensors to detect unusual movement or sensors that set up a perimeter and once breached (someone crosses over the invisible beam) triggers an alarm or a pager/text message/phone calll/alert to me 300 or 1,000 feet away on a little key fob or handheld device.

For example, if you are in the mall shopping and something is happening to your car, you won't know about it until 3 hours later when u go out to the lot only to find your windshield smashed or a massive dent or scrape along the side of your car etc. The alarm went off but you can't hear it since you're inside the mall and the car is way outside in the lot.

If I used something like a baby monitor system or some like of handsfree walkie talkie technology, and place one unit in the car, and the other unit in my pocket, then when the alarm goes off, I'd hear it right away and be able to respond ASAP to the alert.

Now I don't think baby monitors is the answer im looking for, but something like that technology. Is there something out there where an alert or notification can be transmitted via wireless or radio waves or cell phone call or pager beeper or whatever, that can alert you when either A) car alarm has been set off, or B) sensors that have been breached either by touch or motion or vibration, so it can notify me right away?

I've heard of something like DAKOTA 3000 driveway system where you can set up as many sensor panels as you'd like around a given area you want to protect. It creates a perimeter of those invisible beams (like laser lights) and if a large object like a human or maybe some animal breaches the perimeter lines, the sensor then notifies the receiver inside the house ASAP with an alert/alarm. This way, you can respond to it ASAP and possibly prevent or catch the would be criminals.

But the challenge for a car is that it has to be portable. I can't set up a perimeter around a car without placing the sensors somewhere safe where they won't be stolen. Kinda a tricky thing.

Other ideas i had were: Trail cameras, and some ppl suggested something like IP cameras but the problem with IP cameras is you have to have wifi? And the range isn't that great.

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