Why you should add a CO monitor to your smart home

Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that can form during incomplete combustion of fuels such as gas, oil, wood or coal (that would be the textbook explanation of your chemistry high school teacher). More importantly, CO is highly toxic and can lead to serious health problems or even death when inhaled in high concentrations. Carbon monoxide poisoning commonly occurs during the winter months, as heating appliances (powered by gas, oil, wood or coal) are heavily used and windows are securely closed.

Traditional carbon monoxide monitors offer a basic level of protection against the silent but deadly gas. However, they may fall short in today’s smart home safety technology.

• A false sense of security - Homeowners are only alerted when a certain level of CO particles has been surpassed, when it’s already too late. The alarms are not preventive, and therefore purely to react upon by homeowners.

• Limited capabilities - Traditional CO detectors lack the ability to provide insights into general indoor air quality. You don’t know how to fix the issue or which areas are affected, and information about other air quality components, like humidity or density, remains simply undetected.

• Auditive alarms - The units alert homeowners by sound, so you wouldn’t be aware of any problems if you’re away.

Smart CO detectors rely on smart modeling and dynamic scans of the air quality, giving homeowners more insights, more control and more peace of mind.

• Equipped with other smart technologies - Detecting an invisible gas is already pretty smart, but today’s Carbon Monoxide detectors are equipped with more than a monitor. The Vestamatic all-in-one-sensor swiftly combines air quality sensors with presence detectors and temperature control into one unit.

• Realtime updates and regular reports - Instead of solely sounding the alarm as soon as the absolute limit of CO particles is detected, a smart CO monitor informs homeowners on a regular basis about the health of their home. Which areas need to be ventilated more often? Also, when a peak is detected, you’ll be notified on your phone.