What if this wifi connection fails? We're talking about safety equipment here, not gadgets. This is why you wire in your smoke alarms. The AC circuit can take most of the load and test the battery. Ours chirp when the battery is under a certain voltage and the rest of the time they have redundant power.
An infinitely better plan than relying on a wifi connection and an app.
And what happens after it dies (up to 5 years)? We throw away the entire thing?
Agreed. The battery would also be restricted for use with smoke detectors, if we exclude the ability to signal that it's running out of charge. Why not make smoke detectors wifi-aware instead? Their wifi circuit would require much less miniaturization.
The battery drops in to your existing 120v smoke detectors as the backup battery. It still chirps when the battery is low. It still operates normally. The added benefit is that it can alert you to an alarm if you are away from home. If your smoke detectors are all wired together you probably only need one of these.
But yes the disposable nature of the product is a concern for e-waste, convenience, and cost.
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And what happens after it dies (up to 5 years)? We throw away the entire thing?
But yes the disposable nature of the product is a concern for e-waste, convenience, and cost.