Every couple days, Katie would bring her lunch (usually a sandwich and a drink) to work and stick it in the refrigerator of the company lunchroom. Every now and again, certain choice tidbits of those lunches were turning up missing. What’s the world coming to when your lunch isn’t even safe? So XCam2 with XRay Vision and the Hot Body Detector Kit to the rescue. That’s right, we’re going to rescue ourselves.

We set up the XCam2 on the candy machine across the room so that we could get a clear view of the fridge. We hooked up the video receiver to Katie's computer which had the XRay Vision software! We then installed a Hawkeye Motion Detector so it would detect motion only when someone neared the refrigerator. So every time someone neared the refrigerator, the Hawkeye Motion would send a signal to a remote chime located near her desk. Katie would then open "XRay Vision" on her PC and view the LIVE action! She also set up the software to take a snapshot every 5 seconds if motion was detected near the refrigerator, just in case she wasn't at her desk.

The trap was set!

Well sure enough, it wasn’t long before we had what we were looking for. The perpetrator made his appearance. Katie was in a meeting at the time, so she missed the chime. After the meeting she went to get her lunch, but unfortunately she was just a little late. Ralph beat her to her own lunch. Now Katie didn’t know who got it, but the XCam2 did. She ran into her office and checked the log of images over the last hour. It only took 2 minutes to find out who took her sandwich! He was caught red handed, sandwich in hand.

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