He lives in a neat house on a quiet cul-de-sac, rigged with radio-controlled motion detectors.
The most expensive systems feature high-resolution outdoor cameras, reinforced windows, motion detectors and facial recognition scanners.
The cars are often kept in a separate, secure garage guarded by motion detectors and cameras to prevent tampering.
One man combined WeMo switches and motion detectors into a home security system.
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In a test for the military, Pister dropped eight sensors (with clocks, motion detectors and electronic compasses) from an airplane.
For a little more he built an Asterisk system of motion detectors and Web cameras that send video to his office laptop and can call any phone when something happens at his house.
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They formed a University of Utah spinoff company, Xandem Technology LLC, which is commercializing the wireless networks for use as motion detectors for burglar alarm systems, to help police locate hostages and even to alert out-of-town, vacationing parents if a crowd of teenagers is partying at their home during their absence.
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The base station itself can connect to as many as 240 lights and switches, with support for all sorts of devices: heat and cooling systems, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, doorbells, dehumidifiers and motion sensors.
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Until then, they were fairly boring things, with most people understanding how they worked only because their neighborhood streetlights went on when they sensed darkness, smoke detectors sounded alarms and fire trucks beeped because motion sensors understood when they were backing up.
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