When Phidget came out with this new IR temperature sensor, a lightbulb went off. This sensor measures temperature without contact. Point it to the chair in front of your computer, and it will measure your body temperature. Or the temperature of your chair, if you’re not sitting in front of your computer.
And that’s the idea: I wrote a program that locks your Windows workstation when you leave your chair (e.g. when the temperature drops).
In this screenshot, LockIfNotHot is configured to lock the workstation when the temperature drops below 25°C during 3 seconds and there is no user input during 2 seconds.
Once the workstation is locked, you need to provide your Windows account password to unlock it.
Download:
LockIfNotHot_V0_0_1.zip (https)
MD5: 188BE76E0A5BCCA26A8736F8F0C4061C
SHA256: CA915265D3B224DF3AA95E5C59B7C0E7EDF239DF50FC1C03F2C991A8B1800AD2
Didier Stevens 
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Hehe 🙂 Impressive, Didier. You always has something up your sleeve to impress us.
Comment by Manuel — Wednesday 6 April 2011 @ 21:15
Amazing how your mind find this opportunity and implement in security… Cheers!!
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Pingback by IR heat sensor detects when you leave your chair & auto-locks PC - wehaveways's posterous — Saturday 9 April 2011 @ 21:16
hey, I would really like to use the “LockIfNotHot” application.
but, when I tried to run it it said that an unhandled exception has occurred.
I’m working on windows 7.
thanks in advance!
Comment by Yarden — Saturday 9 April 2011 @ 22:25
@Yarden Did you connect the Phidgets IR temperature sensor (ant the drivers)?
Comment by Didier Stevens — Saturday 9 April 2011 @ 22:39
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oo.. no. I didn’t realize that an additional hardware had to be installed. sorry.
Comment by Yarden — Saturday 9 April 2011 @ 22:53
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you realize that this works well in iceland and syberia.
here in Portugal, today was around 28ºC. in the summer, goes to 40ºC…
Comment by john doe — Saturday 16 April 2011 @ 2:00
@john doe But you are a mammal, right, and you enjoy the benefits of thermoregulation?
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This is awesome. But probably wouldn’t work at my place most of the time, where the cat likes to occupy the keyboard as soon as real human leaves the seat. The cat body temperature is 37’C thu, so maybe with a little of diff. analysis it would be possible to detect the difference 🙂
Comment by FY — Friday 22 April 2011 @ 2:01
@FY if you put the sensor on top of your monitor, it won’t see the cat on the keyboard.
Comment by Didier Stevens — Friday 22 April 2011 @ 8:12
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Pingback by MVFenda :: Body heat sensing PC security system :: MVFenda — Tuesday 17 May 2011 @ 1:26
What if you drink a coffee and leave it beside your computer when you leave?
Comment by 1111 — Saturday 18 February 2012 @ 12:08
@1111 That’s no problem at all. The sensor doesn’t pick up ambient temperature, but it has a small viewing angle in which it measures the temperature of bodies radiating heat.
I won’t “see” the coffee.
Comment by Didier Stevens — Saturday 18 February 2012 @ 22:02
Cool, thanks for the suggestion..
Comment by Anonymous — Sunday 12 January 2014 @ 20:36
Ran into a slight issue with the Phidget’s new libraries: Phidgets22. These new libraries caused the software to throw an exception. Didier kindly advised me to remove the new libraries and install the old Libraries21. This did the trick and got the software up and running right away. Thanks Didier! Works like a charm.
https://www.phidgets.com/docs21/OS_-_Windows#Quick_Downloads (Phidgets21 Libraries to use)
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