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Might be cool to add thermal sensors to that, so the lights don't shut off because you're not moving enough.

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I'd also like them to dim if I'm holding a glass of wine and/or move in a particular manner.

Edit: typo

Haha, and play some jazz tune maybe?

That's the main problem with motion activated office lights tbf, especially when you're doing software development for example - not enough motion to keep them on.

Eh, it encourages me to get up and have a stretch periodically.

That doesn't work in a toilet stall.

Every time! The coffee shop by my old house had motion sensing lights in the washroom, and every damned time I would be plunged into darkness half-way through my visit... Urgh.

May I suggest some fiber?

Our company has this in the toilets, when it goes dark you just wave your hands

Ours does too, but there's no sensors inside the stall... You can wave all you want, there's no way to turn the lights back on without opening the stall door.

Thank goodness for phone flashlights!

My problem with the motion activated office lights (at least the ones at the wework my company is located) is that you can't turn them off. The button appears to turn the lights off and disable the motion sensor for some (short) period of time, then movement turns the lights back on again. Very annoying.

My office has a piece of paper taped over the motion sensor on the roof for that reason.

could be fixed with sensors in all the seats, or on the floors where people with standing desks are

I wish more offices would install motion sensors facing keyboards from above, tune-focused for finger motion detection.

> I wish more offices would install motion sensors facing keyboards from above, tune-focused for finger motion detection.

A new dystopian developer-productivity metric.

Erm, could you not also just install a keylogger?

The NSA could just give you access to theirs.

That would still mean that the lights would go off if my boss was the only person in the room.

That's alright, he doesn't really need the light anyway.

If you're staying that still, you likely don't need room lights on. Why not just use an area/task light if you're performing a stationary task?

For people with glasses the reflections can be pretty bad. In addition I require bright cold-white neon light or I fall asleep.

By the way, German workplace safety regulations require a certain minimum of light at a workplace.

OSHA also requires a minimum light level in the US but I believe it only pertains to hazardous working environments (like on a production floor in a manufacturing facility for example). Either that or the enforcement in white collar environments is so weak that literally no one cares to follow the law which is surprisingly common with reagrd to many workplace regulations.

commodity motion sensors are thermal sensors[0]. Perhaps a FLIR[1]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_infrared_sensor [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_looking_infrared

FLIR for turning off a light in a room seems like a ridiculous amount of overkill. I don't know numbers off the top of my head but I feel like at that point you're using more energy for FLIR than the light itself. Not to mention the cost of a single FLIR sensor is probably pretty high.

I think clever placement of traditional IR sensors is the answer here.

These cheap 8x8 sensors may be useful[0].

[0] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3538

Could be a problem if you plan on sleeping, but you could some rules to get around that

Add in voice, image recording to get gov income as well.

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