One of the pitches Smart Labs makes on its website promoting Halo WX, purportedly the smartest smoke alarm ever created, is that “safety shouldn’t discriminate.” The company’s referring to Halo’s ability to connect with most smart-home systems including Iris, iControl, SmartThings, and Apple’s reportedly delayed HomeKit, but it could have just as easily been in response to Mother Nature’s indiscriminate tendencies when it comes to natural disasters ranging from hurricanes, floods and tornadoes.
Smart Labs says its Halo WX is the first alarm to quickly detect flash fires, smoldering fires, and carbon monoxide in a single device, but that’s not all it does. Halo WX is pre-configured to receive geographically localized tornado warnings issued by the National Weather Service
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