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Intelligent Home Alert system

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Many of my friends had their basements flooded recently due to a broken subpump or a leaking water heater. If they had been alerted on time they could have acted promptly and mitigate the damage. So why not install a sensor that, upon contact with water, would send an email or text message to the home owner. Lot’s of money/hastle could be saved. This intelligent home application could then be extended to send alerts prompted by various things (smoke, break-in, etc.). Perhaps something similar already exists… If so let me know.

gabor, Jan 02 2010

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Water sensor alarms already exist ... http://www.specialtyalarms.com/site/1313932/page/470322 ... http://www.basementwatchdog.com/water_alarm.htm ... http://www.ideativeinc.com/leakfrog.cfm

fffinster, Jan 22 2010

Thanks for the links. However, unless I missed something, these are sound alarm systems, which is not going to help you if you are away from home. But if a system could email or text you, you might be able to act quicker and minimize the damage as opposed to waiting till you arrive home and heare the alarm.

gabor, Jan 23 2010