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What about thieves going around selecting data and pinpointing the house the one with the least consumption so they can find out if you are absent or not. Incre
by JohnMort 9y ago
What about thieves going around selecting data and pinpointing the house the one with the least consumption so they can find out if you are absent or not. Incredible techonology
- masklinn 9y agoThat's what my second paragraph is talking about. Note that "least consumption" is not the right indicator, different people have different levels of consumption. What you want is a break in the consumption pattern, a home with lower than usual consumption of electricity.
- Heliosmaster 9y agoYou just need to build a baseline: hide a device and record activity over a long-ish period of time and then it's easier to sense patterns
- jdavis703 9y agoUnless your house has something very valuable, I kind of doubt most thieves would spend this much time plotting to break in.
- masklinn 9y agoThey don't need to spend any time on it past the initial setup, you can have an automated system integrating the consumption pattern of an entire neighbourhood, and pointing out which owners are likely on holidays.
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- kasey_junk 9y agoIt is much easier and more accurate to go to a house and just look to see if anyone is home. Plus you’ll see dogs/locks/neighbors which are the actual important things...