Following the high stakes theft at the Louvre on October 2025, Museum and exhibition centers are trying to learn from the event. Meanwhile, it seems that the big stakes heists wave had not ceased since. Built for delicate closed-spaces monitoring, this acoustics-based monitoring sensor solution can help combat this phenomena. Be it museum items, commercial exhibitions or monetary related safekeeping- any sudden disturbance can be detected.
The museums theft scene is indeed restless. As museums worldwide scramble to take notes from the recent Louvre museum theft, these kind of high stakes robberies had not ceased. In France, national news outlets declared last month of the determination and arrest of the fourth and final member of the Louvre heist gang. According to estimates, The Louvre heist included the theft of several Imperial crown jewels worth approximately 102 million USD.
In the United kingdom, Artnet reported this week that the British Museum intends to hire a treasure hunter to retrieve artifacts stolen back in 2023. Apparently, approximate 1500 items, some gold jewelry and semi-precious stones were stolen by a senior curator for Greek and Roman art at the museum, Peter John Higgs. Furthermore, the items missing were dated from 15th century BCE till the 19th century CE. In parallel, Higgs worked for 30 years at the museum and was suspected of stealing the objects over a period of years. often listing them for sale on eBay. He was fired but hundreds are still missing.
The protection of these archived highly treasured items demands an highly nuanced, highly sensitive solution. Thankfully, there is one such sensory solution. Thus, E.D.E. Electronics Ltd presents a new archive, exhibition and closed-space monitoring sensor solution. Based on acoustics visionary SOUND COMPONENTS LIMITED’s tech, this Electret Condenser Microphone technology is ready to fill in the monitoring gap.
Dubbed “OM9765GB442P-03”, this sensor solution is tailor built to detect glass penetration or hinderance to thin cased storage. As This Condenser Microphone design helps it in it’s goal to achieve high frequency response. Alternatively, this solution is fully tested with sensitivity values of -46 dB at minimum, -44 dB at center and -42 dB at maximum. In correlation, this micro-sensitivity microphone solution offers an outstanding a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of 60 dB.
As other museum related robberies continue to occur, such as the 600 items stolen from Bristol Museum's British Empire last month, there is another high risk burglary situations that must be considered. Namely, bank heists. Specifically, in Germany alone there were at least 3 documented bank robberies in the past few days. Israel is not exempt from such high-stakes criminal activities. This solution may be a key for a personal, and cultural, more protected world.