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If you've ever lived through a house fire you know how devastating it can be. The Leeo
Smart Alert is a plug in monitoring device that makes your "dumb" smoke detector smart.
How it works is simple. Say your smoke or carbon monoxide alarm goes off and you're not home to hear it. The Leeo sends an alarm to your iPhone to let you know.
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Hi, this is Tracy from Kaltu Mac and I'm here with..
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My name is Adam Gettings from LEO. Can you tell us about your device
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Yeah, so what we have here is the LEO Smart Alert device, which is a simple solution for
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monitoring your home's existing smoke and CO detectors. So the way you set it up is that you plug it into an outlet, a standard wall outlet
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connect it to your Wi-Fi network, download the app to your phone, both Android and iOS
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are available, and then you set it up and simply put in your contact information, your
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closest neighbor, maybe a few other people you want to have on your emergency list
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If your alarms go off at home, this device will pick it up and it will call you and then
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play back an audio clip so you can actually validate that alarm for yourself. And if it was an alarm, you can actually get help immediately through the app
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Just click a button and call 911. Okay, and how did you come up with the idea
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So one of my close family friends lives outside of a small town in the Midwest and they were
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headed home one night from town and they saw a fire in the distance, they got closer and realized it was their house
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And when they got there, it was too late and they lost their house and I kept wondering
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why we don't have this very basic information for our homes, even though our homes are our
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most important assets and also they're the place that we want to protect and actually
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feel comfortable in. It just didn't make a lot of sense so I really wanted to build something for my friend and
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also for a lot of other people. Have you heard feedback about people you've helped
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Oh yeah, so in the last year we've detected about 7,000 alarms
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Most of them were toaster ovens and things like that, people leave a stove on or they
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turn the wrong burner on or something like that. But we have had a handful of homes protected where it's been caught really quickly, when
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it just started to smoke, they caught it, they sent the fire department out, saved a
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pet or two. We have had a number, just a handful of real cases where it's been used in a serious case
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A lot of other, you know, just screw ups, people just accidentally. Right, left the piece in too long
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Yeah, you know, set the house on fire for fun or whatever happened. And this works with any standard fire
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Well, as of the mid-90s, they all have, not all, but almost all of them have a standard sound
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Okay, what about the smart ones like Nest? Yeah, those also have the same sound so it works with those
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And what does this retail for? So this retails, right now it's available for $49
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Okay, is it available? Yeah, it's available at Best Buy stores, Lowe's stores, Amazon.com, Leo.com and a couple other websites
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Great, that's awesome. Okay, well thank you so much Adam Gettings from Leo
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Thank you. It's great talking to you.
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