during a conversation with some strangers while sitting in kwik-fit waiting for 2 tyres, the subject turned round to robbery ( because th kwik-fit had been broken into earlier that morning ).
I told them about my mom's neighbour who had their keys fished through the letterbox and their house robbed and car stolen while they were asleep in bed.
I came up with a couple of ideas for counteracting this..
1. a key rack where you hang the keys, but the hooks have switches or weight sensors that sound an alarm when the keys are taken off the hook.. ( you'd need some way of setting the alarm and it recognising whether some hooks are empty when you set it, and some way of disabling it to take the keys off the next day without waking up the missus.. )
2. a key rack where the keyring has something that plugs into the rack and again sounds the alarm if pulled out ( could also have some sort of locking bit to stop them being removed easily )
3. a key rack where the keys have a tag that is sensed and sets the alarm off when taken too far away from the rack.. ( again need some way to turn it off in the morning )
this of course relies on people using a rack rather than throwing their keys into a bowl on the sideboard etc..
then again the radio tag thing could be made into a mat that the bowl sits on.. and so could the weight sensor idea..
I told them about my mom's neighbour who had their keys fished through the letterbox and their house robbed and car stolen while they were asleep in bed.
I came up with a couple of ideas for counteracting this..
1. a key rack where you hang the keys, but the hooks have switches or weight sensors that sound an alarm when the keys are taken off the hook.. ( you'd need some way of setting the alarm and it recognising whether some hooks are empty when you set it, and some way of disabling it to take the keys off the next day without waking up the missus.. )
2. a key rack where the keyring has something that plugs into the rack and again sounds the alarm if pulled out ( could also have some sort of locking bit to stop them being removed easily )
3. a key rack where the keys have a tag that is sensed and sets the alarm off when taken too far away from the rack.. ( again need some way to turn it off in the morning )
this of course relies on people using a rack rather than throwing their keys into a bowl on the sideboard etc..
then again the radio tag thing could be made into a mat that the bowl sits on.. and so could the weight sensor idea..
