Soon after I leased my very first office space at a local industrial compound the in-house cleaning staff had an accident. One of the janitors which attended to that floor slipped on a wet tile and bumped my door clean off of its rusty hinges.
The moment I called my landlord he advised me that it would take two weeks to repair the door. Given that my business office at that point was pretty much open to any individual I made a decision to invest in a motion alert alarm to keep intruders away.
I procured a small passive infrared alarm that was meant to watch entryways and placed it facing the hole where my door used to be. My plan was to utilize it to alert the after-hours security guards to any kind of potential trespassers.
The motion-detecting alarm would sound anytime somebody walks by it. And it could even be set up to perform a simple two-tone entry chime for when you are at the office and dont desire the alarming to go off and call up the guards.
It was battery-powered so that meant I could install it in any convenient place around my office doorway. I would not have worry about getting landlord approval to drill and also run wires through the walls.
In the weeks that I had this security alarm I turned on the two-tone chime while I was inside the office so that I would know whenever somebody wanted to see me. I then switched it to alarm mode before I left for the day.
During this period the security guards actually caught a few people trying to sneak into my office in the after-hours. These were generally homeless bums off the street that were trying to steal whatever was not nailed down to sell it off for some quick cash.
It looks silly to have to go 2 weeks without a door but I was able to improvise a clever solution using a motion alert alarm. Rather than throwing the thing away I plan on keeping it and using it in the future as part of a complete security system.
