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Nest Smoke Alarm Erroneously Stops Alarming
In testing, Google Nest engineers demonstrated that the Nest Wave feature of their Nest Protect: Smoke + CO Alarm could inadvertently silence genuine alarms.
- Date it happened
- 2014-01-21
- Organisation involved
- Nest Labs
- Product, system or model
- Nest Protect is a smoke and carbon monoxide detector & alarm. Its wave-to-disable feature, which allowed users to quickly deactivate a faulty alarm, was found to disengage the alarm in actual cases of
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