What is this mysterious device? Mosquito deterrent, Cat scarer, or some sort of long range sensor?

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So not long ago I joined a "not so cheap health club" that also has a rather nice hotel.

The other day I noticed that the hotel has a number of the following devices around it what appear to be around 4-6 meters off the ground.

Now at first I carefully approached it, in case I was going to be painfully blasted with high frequency sound. (Thought it might of been a high frequency deterrent/cat scarer type device)

Well I did not hear anything, I am guessing it is now some sort of ultrasonic movement sensor or something similar.

The red lights on it (6 in total, 2 illuminated in photo) also flashed in a very peculiar fashion.

Photo:
[GALLERY=media, 97060]Unknown Electrical Device by eveares posted 10 Feb 2016 at 1:26 PM[/GALLERY]

Update: I know know it is likely a Mobotix M12D CCTV cam from Mobotix, but what a odd monstrosity. Never seen a CCTV cam like it before; certainly scary looking!
 
eveares said:
Now at first I carefully approached it, in case I was going to be painfully blasted with high frequency sound. (Thought it might of been a high frequency deterrent/cat scarer type device)
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So now you've been recorded stealthily approaching a security camera with a wary and suspicious look on your face... :ROFLMAO:
 
Looked that these around 10 years ago.... The £2000 price tag was a bit .... When I win the lottery ! Lol
 
ban-all-sheds said:
So now you've been recorded stealthily approaching a security camera with a wary and suspicious look on your face... :ROFLMAO:
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And my iPhones camera pointing at the darn thing, hope I've been lost in all the days footage.

Also, how do Mobotix compare against the makes like Axis.
 
eveares said:
And my iPhones camera pointing at the darn thing, hope I've been lost in all the days footage.
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Digital storage is so cheap these days they could store recordings for a long time, if they wanted to.

Best make sure you've always got an alibi, for the next few months, JIC... :ROFLMAO:
 
Well at least it was a phone I had in my hand and not a brick; that would make me look really suspicious!

Even with PIR trigged motion detection, don't really care tbh. What else they gonna see other than a odd person (me) looking at it and taking a photo.
 
It may be a clever ploy.

Perhaps with a normal looking camera, anyone up to no good might hide their face.

With this odd looking thing they may look at it before realising, thus revealing their identity.
 
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