Soon after I leased my first office space at a local industrial compound the in-house cleaning staff had an accident. One of the janitors that attended to that floor slipped on a wet tile and bumped my door clean off of its rusty hinges.

As soon as I called my landlord he informed me that it would require 2 weeks to fix the door. Given that my 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 acquired a small passive infrared alarm which was designed to watch entryways and installed 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 whenever somebody walks by it. And it can even be set up to play a simple two-tone entry chime for when youre at the office and do not want the alarming to go off and contact the guards.

It was battery-powered so that meant I could install it in any convenient area around my office doorway. I would not have worry about getting landlord approval to drill and 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 in order that I would know whenever somebody wanted to see me. I then switched it to alarm mode just before I left for the day.

During this period the security guards actually caught a few people attempting to sneak into my office in the after-hours. These were mostly homeless bums off the street that were looking to steal anything that was not nailed down to sell it off for some quick money.

It looks silly to have to go 2 weeks without a door but I was able to improvise a smart solution with 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.