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Car theft

Vehicle theft from driveways, including keyless relay attacks, happens in minutes at night; catching the attempt in progress is the only chance to stop it.

Car theft: No motion. No alert — car parked on the driveway, quiet night.Car theft: Motion alert cleared locally. Motion triggered; local AI clears it — a fox crossing the driveway.Car theft: Camera alert cleared by generative AI. Person escalated for analysis; Gen AI clears it — the owner approaching their car with keys.Car theft: Generative AI raises alert. Gen AI confirms suspicious activity — hooded figures breaking into the car.
CAM · CAR THEFT
STATE 1 / 4
On the camera1.1 J / hour

No alert — car parked on the driveway, quiet night.

Nothing wakes. Only the nanopower domain and the PIR are drawing.

How the camera spots it

Foxes and cats are cleared locally. A person at the vehicle is escalated, and Gen AI distinguishes the owner approaching with keys from hooded figures working the lock or holding a relay device, alerting on the theft.

How you would set it up
Wake
PIR wakes the camera; radar confirms distance and size before any capture
Schedule
No timed captures. Heartbeat every 12 hours. IR at night.
On the camera
Radar drops foxes and cats. Edge AI drops frames with no person at the vehicle.
Your criterion
Is anyone at the car? Are they the owner unlocking it normally, or working the lock, holding an electronic device near it, or keeping lookout?Written in plain English. The model reads every escalated frame against it.
Alert rule
ai.theft_attempt · no hold-off · acknowledgement required
Who is told
Push and SMS to the owner; webhook to the monitoring station.
Evidence kept
Escalated frames kept; the owner's own approaches logged without alert.
What you get
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Theft attempt at vehicle · Driveway Cam

Two hooded figures at the car: one working the driver's door lock, one standing lookout with a small electronic device.

Alert frame for Car theft
AcknowledgeOpen camera

A readable account of what triggered it, with the frame attached. No feed to watch, no captures to trawl through.

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