Glass break detector

A glass break detector is a sensor used in electronic burglar alarms that detects if a pane of glass is shattered or broken.[1] These sensors are commonly used near glass doors or glass store-front windows.

Passive glass break detector

Glass break detectors usually use a microphone, which monitors any noise or vibrations coming from the glass. If the vibrations exceed a certain threshold (that is sometimes user selectable) they are analyzed by detector circuitry. Simpler detectors simply use narrowband microphones tuned to frequencies typical of glass shattering, and react to sound above certain threshold, whereas more complex designs compare the sound analysis to one or more glass-break profiles using signal transforms similar to DCT and FFT and react if both the amplitude threshold and statistically expressed similarity threshold are breached. New advances in technology have also led to the use of wireless glass break detectors.[2]

See also

References
  1. Barnard, Robert (1998). Intrusion Detection Systems. Elsevier. pp. 195–196. ISBN 9780750694278.
  2. "How Do Glass Break Sensors Work". The Daily Secure. Retrieved 2020-11-17.


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