Talk:Motion detection

I propose to add a new section at the bottom providing more information on the use of motion detection for lighting control, as an energy saving strategy. I am a scientist at the National Research Council Canada, and one of the areas I work on is lighting controls; I provided most of the content for Daylight harvesting. I can provide many references from my own peer-reviewed research work (COI disclosure), and that of others. Another place to put this proposed content would be the Over illumination page, but this page contains many ideas. I think it's better to expand Motion detection with the technology-specific content, and then link to it from Over illumination. Pelham88 (talk) 14:02, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

merge (do not remove merger tag without consensus)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result was NO CONSENSUS -- Emana (Talk) 20:24, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

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*See also Talk:Motion_detector

good idea to merge since the subjects are the same Anlace 04:52, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

hiiiihihihjdoing a search related to physics and a motion sensor we used in lab. The article should be expanded perhaps instead of merged into security. --Komodo9mm

the non surviving article would of course have a redirect so this comment is irrelevant Phasechange 15:37, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Motion Detector should be merged with this article, they are too similar in topic and use to be seperate. A motion detector is a device that is capable of "motion detection" and therefore the two should be integrated. Cheifsguy 22:17, 26 September 2006 (UTC) I strongly disagree because then the motion detector article would be gone. Iluvuzumaki 04:10, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

• Strongly support merger A redirect will insure that searching for either topic will lead to the article. this merger is an obvious solution, since the topics are identical. one just is named for the detector and one for the process of detection Phasechange 15:37, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
• Support merger note that a redirect solves the only opposing concern. Anlace 13:39, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose merger refrigeration and dishwashing are separate from refrigerator and dishwasher. These should be separate too. Voortle 20:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Please note, in the examples you provided, the articles had at least 5 inline references. These arguments are moote if neither option is supported by facts. WP:A Alan.ca 07:00, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

agree with Alan.ca on this point. also note dishwashing and diswasher is not a good analogy, since most dishwashing in the world occurs without machinery, whereas motion detection is intrinsically related to certain hardware. Anlace 19:41, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I came to the page looking for motion detection as implemented in software (inferring image flows)... so this would be not really related to the idea of a "motion detector" as most often used, I guess... this sort of system isn't necessarily "yes/no", as in security, but can speculate about motion of regions of a video scene with respect to time. So... I oppose the merger.

• Oppose for the same reasons I specified when the merge was proposed in the other direction. --Selket ^Talk 06:41, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support - both are small articles on very closely related things, merging would lead to a bigger and better written article.Mattyatty 16:13, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support merger The Motion Detection article, aside from a couple sentences, talks solely about the detectors used.Mikeeg555 09:57, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Propose New Section - Motion Sensing Controllers

Both Wii Remote and PlayStation Move link to this article, which seems to focus on motion detector technology. I suggest a new section with these controllers and the Sixense TrueMotion.Mister Mormon (talk) 17:48, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Sound Detection

Sound detection is not motion detection and should be removed from this article entirely. Although typically associated with motion detection in the use of dual technology lighting controls (such as SensorSwitch Passive Dual Technology - PIR + Microphonic), it is not.