Talking Smoke Alarms

KidSmart® Talking Smoke Alarm

The KidSmart® Talking Smoke Alarm is the only smoke detector that allows parents to record a personalized message in their own voice, instructing children to wake up and escape safely during an emergency. This human voice alarm was developed in response to documented research showing a familiar voice consistently awakens children from deep sleep, a circumstance in which traditional smoke alarms have proven shockingly unreliable.

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Why Talking Smoke Alarms?

Facts About the Effectiveness of Standard Smoke Alarms:

• Most unimpaired adults awaken quickly and reliably to hallway smoke alarms
• Children, the elderly, people under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or who are sleep deprived have difficulty awakening to hallway smoke alarms
• Studies have found that only 6% of children aged from 6 to 15 woke reliably to a traditional smoke alarm signal
• The critical time frame to exit a residence during a fire is one minute or less.
• Why children seem to find it particularly difficult to awaken to hallway smoke alarms are:
  • Related to delayed prefrontal lobe development, this part of the brain develops mostly between ages 12 through 24
  • Duration of deep sleep (stage 4) decreases with increasing age, so younger children spend more time in deep sleep than older children and adults
  • Children may have higher electroencephalogram energy levels within sleep, making all stages of their sleep deeper and harder to disturb than adults
• Studies have shown that a familiar voice smoke alarm like the "KidSmart® Talking Smoke Alarm" woke 100% of the children studied in one minute or less
• The studies also found an additional benefit to a familiar voice alarm is that they helped children stay calmer in a traumatic situation

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