SMART HOME FIRE SAFETY SYSTEM

Posted By Simon Montford on Oct 19, 2014

The company's mission is to make home fire safety available to everyone. Like airbags for cars, they foresee a time when SensorJet will be in every home, saving many thousands of lives every year. 

The system has two components: a heat sensor on the ceiling, and a small, bench-mounted water jet, that pops up and sprays a fine mist of water when the ceiling sensor detects a fire. And because it's smart, it can turn off again when it's safe – ready to go again if needed. Sprinklers, by comparison, have a head that ‘bursts’ and stays on, usually flooding the place.

The company's mission is to make home fire safety available to everyone. Like airbags for cars, they foresee a time when SensorJet will be in every home, saving many thousands of lives every year. 

The system has two components: a heat sensor on the ceiling, and a small, bench-mounted water jet, that pops up and sprays a fine mist of water when the ceiling sensor detects a fire. And because it's smart, it can turn off again when it's safe – ready to go again if needed. Sprinklers, by comparison, have a head that ‘bursts’ and stays on, usually flooding the place.

We think this is a neat solution but worry about the system's sensitivity. For example, whenever toast is burned things could get pretty messy, and expensive, if electronic devices such as phones, laptops or tablets are left in the kitchen within range of the SensorJet. Our advice, keep gadgets out of range and a mop and bucket close at hand! 

Preorder: indiegogo

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