I have a hidden camera installed in an office to catch sleeping employees, however, the camera does'nt have the greatest lux rating. When the employee turns the light off, it is to dark to see anything. My question is has anyone wired an IR light into an existing light that turns on when the light turns off? I am hoping to have the office lit when the employee turns off the light, and when they turn it back on, the IR light will turn off. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Easy to do, but I wouldn't help you spy on your employees!.

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I'm pretty sure that's not legal. (??)


How can you expect employees to enjoy there work if there boss is spying on them and breathing down their necks?

 

Remove the off option in the light switch.
Sounds like luxury to me, I haven't had any sleep at work today!

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Have you tried turning it off & back on again?...

 

Shops, pubs and clubs do that all the time, cameras above tills are very common.

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Put the office lights on PIR detectors. Not only will your employees have no choice, but you save some electricty on lighting empty offices. All but the slackers will think the automatic lights are a useful upgrade...

 

Buy a FINGER PRINT Reader & connect it to your office computer.

Make a SCHEDULE that every night hour all the employees must scan their fingers into that.

After a GOOD NIGHT sleep you go to office & check the computers finger print LOG. So you can detect the ones that already slept.

This is cheaper than increasing the salary of poor employees.

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just stick some IR led's on the top

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you need an LDR circuit - light dependent resistor. connect said circuit with a relay and the power to your IR and you're in business.

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I've heard stories about photocopiers using finger print recognition but I don't know if I believe them. I suppose it stops people from photo copying their bottoms.

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many businesses employ minimum CPS or mouse mileage monitoring software, to keep their call center workers busy. the software is quite intelligent, it can easily detect if they're just typing garbage, or spinning the mouse around randomly or in circles.

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I'm sure a computer geek could easilly hack into it and forge the logs generated by it.

I would be interested to see if I could build a PIC based keyboard emulator that I just plug into the keyboad socket and get it to type out the contents of the English dictionary or Bible to see if it'd fool the software.

Seriously though, I wouldn't want to work anywhere like that, I suppose I can accept a security camera on the till but monitoring their every keypress is going too far.

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Things like this come and go with the state of the economy. Just like compulsory drug testing and psychological screening are becoming the norm at most places of employment here in the States... the employee doesn't have much choice - during times of recession and rampant unemployment, you have to accept the employers rules or go without a job.

When the public gets fed up enough and stops the insanity that is the right wing new world order, unemployment will drop and employers will have to be more accepting of their employment candidates or risk being overrun by a competitor with a larger staff.

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If you sent all your illegals home(10 million at last count) there would be full employment, bosses desperate for anyone to do the jog, wages go up, conditions go up, housing prices go down(10 million leaving)

 

People caught sleeping where I work or immediately fired on the spot. It's a huge safety hazard. It's a huge, fast pace warehouse. But for any work place, what if there is a fire or some other emergency? Somebody has to waste time finding and waking up these people.
We are by no means over-staffed (anybody looking for a job? Pass a drug test?), one person slacking off, means a lot more work for the rest of us. Only takes three employees off on the same day to create overtime for the rest of us in my department.

I don't know how things work in an office, my people skills are to weak to consider such a job. Don't think I could understand how clicking a mouse button would be physically exhausting...