High Sensitivity Fire Alarm & Smoke Alarm
The air-Q air measuring device measures various air components and has an integrated fire alarm (or smoke alarm). For this purpose, the smoke alarm monitors relevant measured values such as carbon monoxide, air temperature and particulates various particle sizes. If the pre-defined limit values are exceeded, this triggers an acoustic as well as visual alarm at the fire detector: The LEDs of the smoke detector flash red and the air-Q beeps clearly audible. In addition, you can also receive the alarm as a push message. This way, you are also warned on the go when the fire alarm has been activated in your home.
Since the air-Q is sensitive to the development of the room air, it warns you even before a fire breaks out. Finally, it measures several air components indicative of a fire or increased smoke development and can thus be used as a very fine and precise smoke detector. Note that the air-Q is indeed a useful addition to the required fire detector and, as a fire detector, is even more sensitive to relevant values than ordinary smoke alarms. From a legal point of view, however, it does not replace them. The reason: Legal smoke detectors must function independently of electricity due to fail-safety, but the air-Q draws its energy via a power cable and is therefore not battery-powered.
Tip: You can find more information about the air-Q as a smoke detector and gas detector as well as a detailed description of how the measuring device can detect fire, smoke and gas on our topic page.
Comprehensive gas alarm that monitors various sources of danger
Gases are sometimes treacherous. They are often colorless and odorless, but nevertheless dangerous. Therefore, they can escape unnoticed and with devastating consequences, for example:
- about a leak or an undetected defect in the gas heating system or gas boiler,
- if you heat with a fireplace or oil heating,
- if you cook or bake with a gas stove,
- use many electronic devices in one room,
- like to use open fireplaces such as candles.
If the particles get into the ambient air, this can have various effects: from health symptoms such as nausea, lack of concentration and headaches to respiratory problems and shortness of breath to a gas explosion. With explosive gases, even a small spark is enough to ignite them. To prevent a gas explosion, you should monitor the gas concentration of your ambient air using a gas detector. With a gas detector like the air-Q, even colorless and odorless gases can be made "visible". Unlike single-gas devices (single-gas detector), the air-Q can be used as a multi-gas device (multi-gas detector) because it can monitor several different gases simultaneously. Depending on the sensor, the gas detector can check the following measured values: Oxygen, Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Ammonia, Chlorine & Chlorine Gas, Hydrogen Sulfide, Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide as well as Methane.
The gas alarm integrated in the air-Q reacts extremely sensitively and strikes when critical limit values are exceeded or undershot. Falling below is particularly important with regard to the oxygen contained in the vital breathing air. The gas detectors recognize when the gas concentration in the air rises or falls and warn you accordingly. Via the gas detector, you receive an acoustic as well as visual alarm, gain valuable time to act and can, for example, prevent an imminent gas explosion. In addition, the notice can also be configured here as a push message. How the gas alarm sounds and looks, you can see in the following video:
Who benefits from a gas detector & for which applications is such a gas alarm important?
Different gases occur in almost every home. In our following overview, we list the most important gases you should watch out for and reveal where and when they occur.
- Methane: The gas is a main component of natural gas, a combustible gas mixture. Anyone who heats with natural gas should keep an eye on this source of danger. Other sources of danger are, for example, gas-powered cooking when camping or the gas-powered garden grill.
- Carbon monoxide: The gas is produced during incomplete combustion that lacks oxygen. This gas becomes relevant if, for example, you heat with gas, wood and oil stoves or use a gas-powered radiant heater.
- Oxygen: The oxygen content in indoor spaces never remains constant, but is influenced by the number of people in the room, their activities or even by plants. If the oxygen content decreases, one should ventilate. However, we often do not notice that the oxygen content of the air decreases too much.
- Ozone: Depending on the solar radiation, ozone can increase. But also the operation of electrical devices such as printers increase the concentration of the gas.
- Nitrogen dioxide: The substance is released when fossil fuels such as coal, gas or oil are burned. Indoors, therefore, open fires such as stoves, fireplaces or candles are the main source of nitrogen dioxide.
- Ammonia: Ammonia forms the chemical basis for many substances and therefore occurs mainly in an industrial context.
- Chlorine & Chlorine Gas: Like ammonia, chlorine and chlorine gas tends to occur in an industrial context. It is obtained during chemical processes.
- Nitrous oxide: The anesthetic gas is used in the operating room and practice context. It should be monitored to protect staff.
- Sulfur dioxide: This is a putrefactive gas that is produced during decomposition processes and is very toxic.
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In order to detect toxic and/or explosive gases and vapors in time, a sensitive gas detector is required. We recommend that you rely on a multi-gas device and monitor as many air components in the room air as possible instead of one measured value. Since the air-Q allows you to set alarms and push notifications for substances of your choice, you can keep an eye on selected gases.
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