Shortly after I rented my first office space at a local industrial compound, the in-house cleaning crew 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 phoned my landlord, he advised me that it would require 2 weeks to repair the door. Given that my business office at that time was pretty much open to anybody, I made a decision to buy a motion alert alarm to keep intruders out.
I purchased a small, passive infrared alarm which was made to monitor entryways and placed it facing the hole where my door used to be. My plan was to make use of it to alert the after-hours security guards to any kind of possible trespassers.
The motion-detecting alarm would sound anytime someone walks by it. And it could even be set up to play a simple two-tone entry chime for when you’re at the office and do not desire the alarming to go off and call up the guards.
It was battery-powered, so that meant I could mount it in any convenient place around my office doorway. I would not have worry about getting landlord approval to drill as well as 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 before I left for the day.
During this period, the security guards actually captured some people attempting to sneak into my office in the after-hours. These were mainly homeless bums off the street that were aiming to steal whatever was not nailed down to sell it off for some quick money.
It seems silly to have to go two 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 intend on keeping it and utilizing it in the future as part of a complete security system.

