"First Of Its Kind" Stove Knob Alarm Sensor (2GIG)

By Ethan Ace, Published Jan 15, 2018, 10:45am EST

At CES 2018, 2Gig/Nortek announced the Stove & Grill Guard, a "first of its kind" sensor in the security industry, allowing users to be notified if burners have been left on accidentally. 

In this note, we share our feedback from talking to 2Gig at CES, check out the sensor's features, potential fit, and how it compares to competitive options.

Stove & ***** ***** ********

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Non-Replaceable *******

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Panel *************

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Target *******

*** **** ****** *** *** the ***** & ***** Guard ** *** ******** with ***** ******** ** with ******* ****** ** their ***, ****** **** the ******* ** ******* alerts ** ******* *** operated **** ******* *** not **** ** **** on *** ******** ******* of ****.

Competitive ******* *** *******

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*******, *** ***** & Grill ***** ** ****** to ** * ***** offering, *** ** *********** upsell *** ***** ******** residential ****** ***** *********** do *** *** *****.

Poll / ****

Comments (15)

Undisclosed #1

IPVMU Certified | 01/15/18 04:31pm

There are few, if any, competitors to the Stove & Grill Guard.

I don’t see that changing anytime soon.

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Brian Karas

IPVM | In reply to Undisclosed #1 | 01/15/18 04:32pm

I don’t see that changing anytime soon.

Undisclosed #1

IPVMU Certified | In reply to Brian Karas | 01/15/18 05:22pm

Probably not, but it has the potential to be a hot product.

To me, the idea seems half-baked.

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Brian Karas

IPVM | In reply to Undisclosed #1 | 01/15/18 05:27pm

Why so negative? It is not like they put all their eggs in one basket with this.

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Brian Rhodes

IPVMU Certified | In reply to Brian Karas | 01/15/18 05:29pm

entire response chain  = 0.5/10

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Ari Erenthal

Chesapeake & Midlantic
01/15/18 05:01pm

This seems like a slam dunk for 2Gig's usual market, volume residential. If I were a doorknocker, I could sell the hell out of these. Good job. 

Is anybody going to choose 2Gig instead of another brand based on this thing? Doubtful. But this might be the thing that will convince a homeowner hesitant to sign a 5 year contract. 

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Brian Rhodes

IPVMU Certified | 01/15/18 05:16pm

I could see variations of this sensor being useful as well.

For example, a version that trips when a door knob or door lever is turned.  Tired of your kids sneaking out at night?  Stick up a knob alert and fire off the sirens!

 

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Sean Nelson

Nelly's Security
01/15/18 05:40pm

Cool. What else did Nortek have on display at CES?

We have been testing their new Rely Kit with the Securenet Backend, seems like a nice competitor to Simplisafe for the integrator.

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Brian Karas

IPVM | In reply to Sean Nelson | 01/15/18 05:53pm

We did not go through their entire booth, but the rest of it was primarily existing products, with a lot of focus on smart home/IoT.

 

Undisclosed #1

IPVMU Certified | 01/15/18 05:59pm

Not understanding how it works exactly.  So there is no motion detection, (for human activity), involved?

No simmering sauces etc for hours?

Wouldn’t work in this house ;)

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Brian Karas

IPVM | In reply to Undisclosed #1 | 01/16/18 12:01am

Not understanding how it works exactly.

It is a wireless door/window contact in a new case. Turn the burner On, it sends an "open" message to the panel. The panel starts a user-defined count-down timer (say, 45 minutes). If the panel does not receive an off/closed message before the timer expires, it triggers an alarm/message.

No logic to detect presence, burners set to "Simmer" instead of "High", or even a local override. Just a door contact in a disc.

Undisclosed #1

IPVMU Certified | In reply to Brian Karas | 01/16/18 04:31pm

The panel starts a user-defined count-down timer (say, 45 minutes). If the panel does not receive an off/closed message before the timer expires, it triggers an alarm/message.

For electric stoves at least it sounds like it would be way cheaper/reliable to just put one kill-o-watt type device in-line with the power cord to send alerts after a continuous draw threshold was exceeded.

 

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Brian Karas

IPVM | In reply to Undisclosed #1 | 01/16/18 04:39pm

Doubtful. First, there are not a lot of cheap 220V power monitors available in the US, and 220V kitchen appliances are often hard-wired. The alarm tech would then need to have a high-volt license and spend probably an hour installing something in-line with power vs. 5 minutes dropping some modified door contacts over the stove knobs.

Drew Rollins

01/15/18 07:23pm

I would be more interested if this was Z-Wave compatible. There have been more than a few times I have turned around and went home because I wasn't 100% sure that I turned the stove off. Being able to pull up my hub app and see would be nice.

Undisclosed #3

01/16/18 12:18pm

Damn.  Now they know when I'm grilling.

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