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I know we typically do not address electrical and control systems here, but here goes:
Specification for Driveway Alert Security System
Concept:
Magnetic sensors are embedded adjacent the driveway near the entrance to the property from Algonquin Drive. The sensors send a signal to the system in the home when a vehicle enters the driveway. A vehicle exiting the driveway will not signal the system, nor will the passage of a human or animal.
Control is adjacent the service entrance inside the home.
The system can be controlled to perform various sequences of events or event combinations, when the magnetic sensors signal a vehicle entering the driveway.
The “When Home” event sequence.
A daylight sensor is installed outside the home, and in darkness conditions, front exterior lighting is turned on, and the single-tone doorbell is rung. The doorbell has two tones, a single tone (car entering driveway) and a double tone (front door button pushed). In daylight, only the single-tone doorbell is rung.
The “When Away and Set for Security” event sequence.
A vehicle entry initiates a timer, and after a first interval, upstairs bath and hall light turn on, after a second interval, staircase lighting turns on, and after a third interval, front hall lighting turns on. After a final interval, if outdoor lighting sensor says “darkness,” all outdoor lighting turns on. All lighting returns to off after one hour.
An “All Off” setting causes no events to trigger from a vehicle entrance.
Is this possible?
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Yes but it sounds like you'll need someone to pull it all together, I doubt you'll get all you need from one vendor.
Magnetic sensors are used in the ground to activate automatic gates for cars in parking lots. Two sensors would tell which way a car was going but noticing which sensor "saw" the car first. If sensor A activates and then sensor B, the car's going down the drive. If sensor B activates first, the car's going up the drive. Animals and humans aren't metal so no problem there.
Once the signal reaches the house, many alarm panels have outputs that can do all sorts of things like close or open auxiliary relays to turn on lights, sound a door bell, even turn on another timer that could in turn operate your sequence of lights.
You'll never find a "system" that will do this but by making available components from different places "talk" to each other you could make this happen.
This sounds like one of those fun projects that makes you think outside of the normal stuff we do all day. Also sounds like one of those projects you'd lose your shirt on because it's hard to bid what you don't do everyday.
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I know we typically do not address electrical and control systems here, but here goes:
Specification for Driveway Alert Security System
Concept:
Magnetic sensors are embedded adjacent the driveway near the entrance to the property from Algonquin Drive. The sensors send a signal to the system in the home when a vehicle enters the driveway. A vehicle exiting the driveway will not signal the system, nor will the passage of a human or animal.
Control is adjacent the service entrance inside the home.
The system can be controlled to perform various sequences of events or event combinations, when the magnetic sensors signal a vehicle entering the driveway.
The “When Home” event sequence.
A daylight sensor is installed outside the home, and in darkness conditions, front exterior lighting is turned on, and the single-tone doorbell is rung. The doorbell has two tones, a single tone (car entering driveway) and a double tone (front door button pushed). In daylight, only the single-tone doorbell is rung.
The “When Away and Set for Security” event sequence.
A vehicle entry initiates a timer, and after a first interval, upstairs bath and hall light turn on, after a second interval, staircase lighting turns on, and after a third interval, front hall lighting turns on. After a final interval, if outdoor lighting sensor says “darkness,” all outdoor lighting turns on. All lighting returns to off after one hour.
An “All Off” setting causes no events to trigger from a vehicle entrance.
Is this possible?