Karlheinz Schreyer
No compromising on safety – Smoke detectors go wireless
Dec 04, 2006
Karlheinz Schreyer works in a sensitive field – alarm reporting technology. This area comprises primarily smoke detectors and burglar alarms – devices whose reliability can sometimes be a life-or-death matter. But that only makes the 59-year-old inventor work all the harder: “If someone says it can’t be done, we do it.”
Schreyer and his colleagues recognized early on that the future of alarm systems lay in the wireless networking of individual alarm units. At first, there were doubts about this innovation, Schreyer recalls: “For a long time, wireless technology for smoke detectors was written off as too unreliable. However, our products have reached a level of reliabil-ity that is even better than conventional wired systems in many situations.”
Reference Number: soct200608-02a
