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Abstract

An advanced asset protection system (APS) includes a small, battery-powered, Asset Protection Device (APD) having circuits for detecting motion and tampering and intrusion of a protected asset or the APD itself. The APD includes a an internal wireless battery-powered transmitter that transmits security system status information such as information that an alarm condition was sensed, or that a tamper condition was sensed, and an APD identifier to a wire-less receiver. It includes a switch configurable multi-port connector module that provides a plurality of asset coupling ports for electrically coupling assets to the APD modular telephone wire. Ports present but not used, are disabled (to prevent false tamper or alarm reports) by port by-pass circuitry. The APD effectively extends the tamper and alarm circuits to remotely connected assets via the multi-port connector. The APD provides a motion sensitivity adjustment circuit, including a configurable bank of capacitors across a mercury switch, that provides for selectable motion detection sensitivity by adjusting the delay period between the initial disturbing motion and an alarm indication. The APD and the APD sensors are themselves protected from electrical and mechanical intrusion of the housing, physical removal from an asset, electrical manipulation of the coupling cords or remote asset protection sensors attached to the assets, or removal of the sensors from a protected asset.

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