Oct. 17, 2013: Nest Introduces Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm
Nest Protect Will Give Heads-Up Warning, Mobile Notifications
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Nest Labs Inc. has announced a new smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarm called the Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide™. According to the company, the product does more than just sound a shrill alarm. It speaks, telling you where the danger is and what the problem is. Before it sounds a piercing alarm, it provides a Heads-Up warning that can be silenced with the wave of a hand — no more swinging towels or brooms to quiet a false alarm. It also provides mobile notifications.
“With our first product, the Nest Learning Thermostat, we set out to help people reduce home energy use,” said Tony Fadell, Nest founder and chief executive officer. “Now, we’re turning our attention to something that’s also important: keeping families safe in their homes. We’ve all experienced the smoke alarm going off while we’re cooking or searched for the source of that incessant low-battery chirp in the middle of the night. Every time a smoke alarm cries wolf, we trust it a little less, and then — in a moment of frustration — we rip the batteries out to stop the beeping. And that leaves us and our families at risk.”