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Unless they're using some kind of new technology to detect water it seems like the sensor needs to be where the unwanted water will be. And that's on the floor.
Our homes are different from what people build at the US, but at least here, leaking water is normally located at the walls. You'll have plenty of evidence of a leakage (like destroyed painting and bad smell) much before it reaches the floor.
This is like the Nest and the Nest-Smoke Detector - a beautiful solution with some high tech wizardry, but I could solve the problem just as easily by spending 10% of their solution. You can buy a 6-pack of devices on Amazon that make a noise like a smoke alarm when it detects water for $30.
300 buckadingdongs for 6 sensors, a hub and an app seems quite reasonable to me. This would be especially useful for a landlord to unobtrusively monitor properties.
What's going on with her legs?
Lots of nice pictures of why to get it (your kids, your beautiful home, etc) - pulling heart strings can be effective. However, the website didn't make the technology very clear which is immediately suspicious in my book - place a magic box somewhere in your home and get notifications if something goes wrong (water or temperature related). The dashboard and interface also looks nice, but the product seems to give the…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless they're using some kind of new technology to detect water it seems like the sensor needs to be where the unwanted water will be. And that's on the floor.
Our homes are different from what people build at the US, but at least here, leaking water is normally located at the walls. You'll have plenty of evidence of a leakage (like destroyed painting and bad smell) much before it reaches the floor.
Now if the sensor could watch the walls for far-infrared discoloration to show unseen leaks that would be useful in your part of the world, but that's going to be a ways off.
Lots of nice pictures of why to get it (your kids, your beautiful home, etc) - pulling heart strings can be effective. However, the website didn't make the technology very clear which is immediately suspicious in my book - place a magic box somewhere in your home and get notifications if something goes wrong (water or temperature related). The dashboard and interface also looks nice, but the product seems to give the…
Clicking "how does it work" and scrolling down has a link to a paper published in ubicomp 2010 detailing the CMOS chip and modulation. They seem pretty open about the technology to me.
