Last night I set up the following rig to see if there were any mice in the kitchen at night. It consists of my StalkedByTheState smart camera trap system and a 640x512 resolution thermal core for which I've developed drivers for StalkedByTheState.



It turns out I do have mice. All of the following 30s events are mouse activity.



It's interesting that the mouse examined pretty much every inch of the kitchen surface, except the ceramic cook top.



The focal distance of the core starts at around 1.25m. In this case I'm using Raspberry Pi Motion detection, but it's a good way to collect training data to build a smart model. In this case the camera is indoors so it's not troubled by random things moving around so motion detection works pretty well. In a busy environment or outdoors, that's where a trained model would show it's strengths.