The Arduino Smoke Detector, a wireless device that sends text messages and automated phone calls to users when a smoke sensor is triggered, won the Hacker's Choice Award at last weekend's ...

I’ve been writing about smoke detectors for a few years. That often involves researching fire statistics, so when I see something like the fact that the death rate from a fire is 60 percent lower in ...

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Fig 1. Fires follow a progression from start to full involvement, with both temperature and smoke content rising rapidly once full combustion is underway. Fig 2. Traditional optical smoke detectors ...