Should I get a carbon monoxide detector?

• Wanting to be safer, the connected home is getting a new brick with the Intelligent Carbon Monoxide Detector launched by Netamo.

• To be placed near a gas, oil, wood, coal or ethanol combustion device, the device sounds the alarm and notifies the owner in real time of a suspicious emanation.

• Sold 99 euros, it is not cheap, but it can operate in total autonomy for ten years.

An invisible threat lurks inside you and you may not know it.

Its name: carbon monoxide (CO).

This odorless and colorless gas is potentially fatal.

To detect it and avoid a tragedy, Netatmo is launching its Intelligent Carbon Monoxide Detector.

One more gadget in the connected home?

Not so sure.

“20 Minutes” tested it.

No legal obligation

There were smoke detectors, intrusion detectors, door opening detectors… and here is a carbon monoxide detector pointing its nose at Netatmo.

A novelty ?

No, there are already a few on the market, "but in the absence of a legal obligation, this type of device is less known", explains Netatmo to

.

The device offered by the French manufacturer also has the particularity of being connected.

10 years of security

Implemented with Netatmo's Home + Security application, the CO detector can thus join under the same interface other brand equipment, such as surveillance cameras, a siren, a video doorbell, etc.

Installing it will only take a few minutes if you are able to drill two holes in a wall in order to properly fix the device using its bracket and two supplied screws.

The rest of the configuration is done step by step, through the application.

From then on, you will have nothing more to do… for ten years!

This is the lifetime of the device.

"We consider that beyond that, the sensor which detects carbon monoxide is no longer functional", justifies Netatmo.

Ten years is also the lifetime of the battery built into the detector, which will not need to be recharged.

Useless in collective housing

The carbon monoxide that the CO detector can detect will emanate from the poor combustion of a boiler, a water heater, a fireplace, a stove, or a gas cooker.

Warning: the detector is useless in the context of a dwelling with collective heating.

But anyone who owns a gas, wood, coal, oil or ethanol heating or cooking appliance should feel concerned.

The detector must be placed close to the equipment it will monitor, at a distance of approximately two to four meters and at a height of 1.50 meters.

In the (rarer) case of a combustion device housed in a bedroom (we can nevertheless think of a studio, for example), it is thus at the level of the head of the bed that it will have to be hung.

If the device detects at least 50 ppm (or "parts per million") of CO for 60 to 90 minutes, an 85 db alarm is triggered and a notification sent in real time.

Impossible not to be awakened in the event of danger detected in the middle of the night!

As for the notification, this second alert is practical, even if you are absent, in order to be able to alert those around you.

If the detector detects at least 300 ppm for more than 3 minutes, it alerts immediately.

In the event of detection, only one thing to do: open the windows, turn off the heating and cooking appliances if possible, go out and call the emergency services (112 or 18).

According to Netatmo, “1,000 homes and 3,000 people are affected in France each year.

The first symptoms can be a migraine…until death”.

Thus, according to the ARS (Regional Health Agency), an average of 100 people die in France each year from carbon monoxide poisoning…

In the absence of a detector...

Simple steps can be taken to protect against the potential risks of carbon monoxide emissions, such as having your boiler serviced every year, ventilating your home, etc.

Sold for 99 euros, Netatmo's Intelligent Carbon Monoxide Detector is far from cheap, especially since there are devices on the market that are certainly not connected (and run on batteries), which do the job.

We can also, as we have done, criticize Netatmo for not offering a complete product, which also acts as a smoke detector.

But according to the manufacturer, "a two-in-one product with several features would lower the quality of operation".

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