Spare Smartphone & No-cost App Help Catch Thief in Kapiti

Spare Smartphone & No-cost App Help Catch Thief in the Kapiti Coast District

Kapiti Coast District, Wellington, New Zealand – 29 June 2015 – Melissa Rodrigues’ property was violated three nights in a row. Her three-year-old son told her that he heard an intruder. The first time she didn’t believe him. The second time, he showed her the proof – footprints in the mud. The third time the intruder appeared, Melissa and her husband caught him using the free app, Salient Eye (www.salient-eye.com), which allowed her to transform an old smartphone into a camera and motion detector.

Here is the link to the images she captured: http://ws.salient-eye.com/EventReport/mel-rodrigues879708/2015/06/27/16/46

Once the Salient Eye app “saw” the intruder, Melissa was immediately notified with an email alert. She called the police, and a manhunt of five police cars and a dog tried to track him down. The dog actually lost his scent, but the picture from the Salient Eye app provided enough details that the man could easily be identified. He was a neighbor living a few houses away. He was on a spree and confessed to everything – not only stealing tools from the Rodrigues family but also stealing from other neighbors.

Ms. Rodrigues found Salient Eye online. “Having no money to be able to actually buy a 'proper' system, I stumbled across the app – which allowed me to have a free, immediately available security set up. This app literally helped our whole community,” she said.

Salient Eye is available for free download at Google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mantishrimp.salienteye

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