Keeping Alarms Worth Believing After Dark
■ Night Security Only Knows That Something Moved in the Dark A motion sensor trips in the outpatient wing at night, and a guard runs out with a flashlight. The intruder is a robot carrying specimens. Night security treats anything that moves as a threat. The robot did nothing wrong. Nobody told the system.
■ Every False Alarm Teaches the Guard to Doubt the Next One If every robot run sets off an alarm, the guard runs every night. After enough false alarms, attention slips. The real danger is not the false alarm. It is the night a real intruder appears and the alarm gets doubted too.
■ Conclusion: Share the Robot's Route With Security Before It Moves The next morning, the engineer registers the robot's times and routes in the security system. Once planned movement is shared, only unplanned movement stands out. Deploying a robot means aligning with the systems that watch it. Tell the watchers which movements they can safely ignore.
