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Car vandalism

Parked cars on streets and in car parks are keyed, kicked and have windows smashed, often with no witness; a timely alert and image give owners and police something to act on.

Car vandalism: No motion. No alert — parked cars, quiet street.Car vandalism: Motion alert cleared locally. Motion triggered; local AI clears it — a cat on a car bonnet.Car vandalism: Camera alert cleared by generative AI. Person escalated for analysis; Gen AI clears it — a pedestrian passing the cars.Car vandalism: Generative AI raises alert. Gen AI confirms vandalism — a hooded person keying a parked car.
CAM · CAR VANDALISM
STATE 1 / 4
On the camera1.1 J / hour

No alert — parked cars, quiet street.

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

How the camera spots it

Animals on or around vehicles are cleared locally. A person close to a car is escalated, and Gen AI separates someone walking past from a figure crouched at a door scratching the paintwork, alerting on damage.

How you would set it up
Wake
PIR wakes the camera; radar confirms a person- or vehicle-sized target before any capture
Schedule
No timed captures. Heartbeat every 12 hours. IR at night.
On the camera
Radar drops cats and birds. Edge AI drops frames where nobody is within arm's reach of a car.
Your criterion
Is anyone damaging a parked car, for example scratching, kicking or breaking a window? Someone walking past is fine.Written in plain English. The model reads every escalated frame against it.
Alert rule
ai.vehicle_damage · hold-off 10 min · acknowledgement required
Who is told
Push to the residents' group and the car park operator; email with frames.
Evidence kept
Escalated frames kept; passers-by logged without alert.
What you get
15:20●●●
Machairanow
Car being keyed · Elm Street

Hooded person crouched at the side of a silver hatchback dragging a key along the door. Walking east afterwards.

Alert frame for Car vandalism
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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