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I feel like that'd be a lot more work than just watching their house for activity.

• colordrops 9y ago
  It's a different set of criminals and crimes, and some of it is organized.
• manmal 9y ago
  You could just build a device with GSM module, a battery, and above mentioned components, and hide it somewhere near the house. Voila, 24/7 observation from the comfort of your home. And the data is easily analyzable/mineable, not like a video feed you have to view on fast-forward.
• masklinn 9y ago
  Sure but for theft it's much more useful to have information about an entire neighbourhood at once, there's a much larger ROI to casing dozens or hundreds of homes at once than to casing each one individually. You can have "small hands" doing the initial survey (e.g. triangulate signal strengths to meter locations), automate the surveillance/pattern checking, and call in more professional break-in teams when you have high confidence.