Vibealert is a patent microprocessor controlled smoke alarm for hearing impaired or deaf individuals that was originally created for the hearing impaired and elderly.
But it can also be used for all members of the family including sleeping children.
Protect every member of your family — even those who sleep deeply or can’t hear traditional smoke alarms. Vibealert awakens you with vibration, lights, and sound when danger is detected
Vibealert works with your existing smoke and CO2 sensors to wake and alert in the event of an emergency. Unlike other systems Vibealert is wired directly to your existing or newly installed smoke and/or CO2 sensor so there are no worries about false alarms or missed alarms due to the “ear” not hearing the alarm signal, perhaps because the listening ear is too far away from the sounding alarm or maybe you have the bedroom door closed because you’re sleeping.
Vibealert works regardless of distance or if you have the door closed, and can even be easily moved from room to room because our system uses a directly connected microprocessor that sends a wireless signal up to 650 feet or 200 meters (the average home is 20 to 50 feet end to end) which means it doesn’t need to be used in the same room as the smoke alarm and since it doesn’t require WIFI it can even be used in a garage or a to notify a neighbor if your out of town.
What does it do
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Smart Alerts You Can Hear, See, and Feel
Smoke alarm for the hearing impaired or deaf
How we started
Last year, a fire started in our kitchen late in the evening while my wife was sound asleep. It was terrifying, and we were lucky to escape without physical harm.
As I was getting ready for bed, I noticed a strange smell. When I turned the corner to investigate, I couldn’t see the other side of the house because it was filled with smoke. In the kitchen, flames were coming from the microwave and the cabinets above it, and the fire had already spread to the wall and ceiling.
I grabbed the fire extinguisher we keep in the kitchen and managed to put out the flames, but the fire was still smoldering inside the wall and ceiling. I rushed to wake my wife, who had slept through the smoke alarms. Later she told me she thought she heard them but fell back asleep.
That experience made the importance of effective smoke alarms painfully clear. As someone with a hearing impairment, I know how easy it is to miss beeping alarms. This is why we created a new kind of smoke alarm designed to wake and alert people even if they are completely deaf. While some alarms use flashing lights, most people sleep with their eyes closed.
It is my hope that this product will save lives and prevent similar or worse tragedies in the future.
Did You Know
According to the National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA), 80% of all fire deaths in North America are the result of house fires. And according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 51% of all deaths from residential fires occur between 11 pm and 7 am, when most people are sleeping. Because most house fires are preventable, we feel that it is important to share as much helpful information as we can to help you and your family to stay safe.
From the website https://eliteceu.com/blog/fire-safety-while-you-sleep/
The findings, published in a paper titled Waking Effectiveness of Alarms for Adults Who Are Hard of Hearing, showed that 43 percent of research subjects did not awaken to the high-pitched signals generated by smoke detectors, which emit sounds in the 3,150-Hz range, which is the range of a typical smoke alarm. Statistics show that this range (2000-8000 is the range that most people with high range hearing loss struggle the most.
More than 500 volunteer families are being sought across the UK to join a study testing new fire alarm sounds after initial research showed that more than 80% of children aged between two and 13 did not respond to a traditional alarm when it was sounding
Fire Safety for the Hearing Impaired and the Elderly
Having a working smoke alarm doubles your chances of surviving a home fire
Smoke alarms save countless lives every year. Most people who die in home fires are not in the room where the fire starts. Working smoke alarms alert people to fire and give them time to escape in a situation where minutes can mean the difference between surviving and not surviving.
However, there are 28 million deaf and hard of hearing Americans who are unable to rely on this life-saving warning sound to alert them of fire and people who are deaf or hard of hearing face a high risk for fire and fire-related injury.
Also elderly may not be as aware of the surroundings or need to take medication (sleeping meds or pain meds) that impairs their alertness.
For Kids Too
A study was done that found that more than 80 percent of children between the ages of 2 and 13 did not wake up from a standard issue alarm.
The American Red Cross warns home fires are one of the biggest disaster threats in the U.S., with on average seven people dying and 36 people suffering injuries every day as a result of home fires.
“Good Morning America” decided to observe whether a regular smoke alarm would wake up two sleeping children with the McBride family from Connecticut.
Lauren McBride told ABC News that she was curious to see what happened “because our son sleeps through everything.”
She added that she and her husband, Pat, have an action plan in place in case there is a fire and have taught their children, Landon, 3, and Noelle, 1, what a smoke detector sounds like.
“He knows the sound,” McBride said of her son. “We have a fire ladder in our bedroom and our plan is to get them, get the ladder, and get out.”
Vibealert can be used as a smoke alarm for kids or for anyone that may not hear or acknowledge a regular smoke alarm. And can still be used by those who can hear it.
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