Technologically advanced smoke detectors may make you reconsider where you spark up

ooks like a new smoke detector specifically marketed for
hotels, motels, dorm rooms, nursing homes— or anywhere there are shared living
spaces and a desire to control what goes on behind closed doors— is due to be
released on the market in 2015. These new detectors should soon have a lot of
recreational cigarette and cannabis users checking out their surroundings
before they decide to light up.

The device, called AirGuard,  goes beyond the conventional smoke detector’s
duty of protecting people and property from smoke and fire. Iinstead, it was
made to sniff out its environment searching for different kinds of smoke— particularly
that of cigarettes and cannabis.

Now, someone might be wondering, “What’s the big deal if it
detects someone smoking a joint in a hotel room; is the device going to go off?”
Well, the alarm might not necessarily go off in the room, but due to its Wi-Fi connection
system, it can contact the authorities to tattle on anyone engaging in smoking
activities that aren’t in-line with the law or house regulations.

Its inventor, Joseph BelBruno, hadn’t intended for his new
product to focus on cannabis smoke, but when interviewing a plethora of hotels
in the marketing phase of his cigarette detector product he kept encountering
the same question from owners and managers, “Can you sniff out cannabis as well?”
It seems that though cannabis smoke dissipates quickly, it sticks around long
enough to affect prospective room renters with an odor that they might not
agree with.  BelBruno plans to release a handheld
version of the detector as well.

For all those who might encounter this little
Wi-Fi spy in their room on a future trip, in their dorm, or any of the many
places that it could possibly be utilized, keep in mind that BelBruno mentioned
that it couldn’t pick up on the smoke from a vaporizer. And though we don’t
know how technologically advanced this detector might be, it most likely can’t
detect that it has been properly covered with an air tight bag either. Leave it
to those who have enough tact to figure out how outsmart the device; but
proceed with caution.