Detecting Vehicles Coming Up Our Driveway

[W. Watson]

I believe someone mfgers a device that can be placed along a driveway, and
when a vehicle passes by it sends a wireless signal to an alarm in a home to
signal the event. Whoa! As I was typing this, it occurred to me that I might
have bookmakred such a site once. Here it is <http://www.drivewayalarm.com/>
Are there others? The price of the 1000' alarm is a bit much, $179.

Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

 

[kell]

I believe someone mfgers a device that can be placed along a driveway, and
when a vehicle passes by it sends a wireless signal to an alarm in a home to
signal the event.

Google "motion detector"
e.g.

http://www.homesecuritystore.com/ezStore123/DTProductList.asp?p=2_1_1_1_0_0_194

 

[Don McKenzie]

I believe someone mfgers a device that can be placed along a driveway,
and when a vehicle passes by it sends a wireless signal to an alarm in a
home to signal the event. Whoa! As I was typing this, it occurred to me
that I might have bookmakred such a site once. Here it is
<http://www.drivewayalarm.com/> Are there others? The price of the 1000'
alarm is a bit much, $179.

http://www.carvaluesplus.com/securityvoicealert.htm
works for me, along with a decent color video camera and monitor.

Don...


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[The Grim Reaper]

I believe this subject has been covered a number of times in;
alt.home.automation
comp.home.automation
(Assuming you haven't looked there already... )
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[Charles Schuler]

I believe someone mfgers a device that can be placed along a driveway, and
when a vehicle passes by it sends a wireless signal to an alarm in a home
to signal the event. Whoa! As I was typing this, it occurred to me that I
might have bookmakred such a site once. Here it is
<http://www.drivewayalarm.com/> Are there others? The price of the 1000'
alarm is a bit much, $179.

Lowes carry motion detector lights with battery-operated sensors with RF
transmitters ... the range is 100 feet. They cost a lot less than $179 and
might serve the purpose. It should be easy to power a sound device from the
light socket unit, which could be mounted in your home.

 

[Kurt Krueger]

Check out the X10 stuff. www.x10.com

 

[Roger Dewhurst]

I believe someone mfgers a device that can be placed along a driveway, and
when a vehicle passes by it sends a wireless signal to an alarm in a home to
signal the event. Whoa! As I was typing this, it occurred to me that I might
have bookmakred such a site once. Here it is

Are there others? The price of the 1000' alarm is a bit much, $179.

Try burying a multi turn coil, a metre or two in diameter, in the driveway.
Connect the two ends to the inputs of an op-amp and fiddle with it until you
get enough of an output signal to do something with.

R

 

[quietguy]

Silicon Chip magazine published a construction article for one of these not so
long ago

David