NEW PRODUCT: Motion Sensing Lighting - Train Sense

Nice product!

When I first saw the thread's title, I thought the product might be intended to sense motion in order to activate lighting *on the layout*, which got me thinking about layout accessories activated by the presence of a viewer, much as I did a while back with sound file activation:



I started to mull over what layout lighting might benefit from the ability to be activated in the presence of a viewer (the bundle I used for the camping sounds installation is specifically designed for playing custom sound files when it detects motion, but I believe similar hardware is available that could control other devices, and it might be possible to put together a DIY alternative to the (no doubt more expensive) product).

Of course, the *actual* topic and associated video is about a new product designed to control lighting in DCC-activated rolling stock when it detects motion (or the absence of same) by the consist. My immediate Marx-centric postwar conventional control instinct was to think, "Why not just use the track voltage (or absence of same) to detect motion?", before immediately realizing the track is *always* powered with DCC and other command control systems IIRC, thus creating the need for some other motion-sensing method. So, it's unlikely I will be in the market for the specific product on my conventional control layouts, but the idea of motion-detecting activation for other accessories is a concept that might find its home on my layouts somewhere down the line! 

If you're referring to the camping sounds installation, yes, that's exactly how it operates. In fact, I had to 'hide' the sensor (covered with translucent plastic film) inside the 'hot tub' (a decorated section of discarded caulk gun tube) to avoid activation every time the trains went by, but it *will* be triggered by anyone passing anywhere near the corner and above the layout.