Re:Whatever happened to IoT smoke alarms?
by brudgers on Sunday April 11, 2021 @09:30AM
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The Venn diagram of people who don't change batteries, can't reliably make toast, and want a feature rich smoke alarm is non-empty based on this thread.
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Re:Whatever happened to IoT smoke alarms?
by AstralStorm on Sunday April 11, 2021 @10:10AM
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Well, you could have a mains powered rechargable battery (or supercapacitor) backed detector.
Then again, it better be designed so that the sensor part is replaceable and it fails loud.
(Though neither supercapacitor nor nickel-* cells are very expensive, we put them in random MP3 players for $10 a pop.)
The feature richness is a scam though.
The half-life of commodity rechargeable batteries is significantly less than the half-life of Americium.
And people who don't proactively replace smoke alarm batteries are unlikely to proactively change the alarms...changing out an alarm is a bigger job than changing batteries.
A smoke alarm is not a consumer product.