Smoke and CO detectors sold on Amazon recalled after it's found they may stay silent in a fire

Smoke and CO alarms are designed to provide early warning in an emergency. If a detector remains silent, people can lose ...
Tech Xplore

More precise fire extinguishing from the air using simulation and sensor data

Wildfires are becoming more frequent and more intense worldwide. Fires often become infernos because of heat, drought and wind, especially in the summer. The problem is compounded by the climate ...

Albuquerque deploys high-tech fire detection sensors across the Bosque

Albuquerque leaders are calling it a fire alarm system for the outdoors as the city has now deployed new tech throughout the ...

How gusty winds helped Arizona's Pocket Fire grow to 15,376 acres

The fast-expanding Pocket Fire is releasing high amounts of smoke in towns to the northeast, leading to hazardous air quality ...
University of Geneva

EBTIKAR Tech Challenge - Jordan

UVUMBUZI Tech Challenge - Kenya; EBTIKAR Tech Challenge - Jordan; EBTIKAR Tech Challenge - Jordan. INTRODUCTION. The Ebtikar Tech Challenge! was a four-month-long inno ...
Ars Technica

Ubiquiti is getting into smoke alarms/sensors now

Announcement here, store product page, seems to be new entries in a proprietary 900 Mhz based system they're trying to get back into a subset of IOT with after abandoning MFi all those years ago. Been ...
Gothamist

NYC to install traffic sensors to track how pedestrians, bikers and drivers behave

New York City's Department of Transportation is expanding its use of high-tech sensors across city streets, Commissioner Mike Flynn announced this week. The devices are meant to help the department ...