I used to be in my automotive, miles from house, when a panicky telephone alert shook me out of my NPR haze: {An electrical} fireplace hazard had been detected at my home. Instantly I known as my spouse, who instructed me the home wasn’t burning. Then I known as the quantity within the alert to find out what it was all about.
The alert got here from Ting, an electricity-monitoring service whose machine I’d plugged into an outlet a couple of weeks earlier and nearly forgotten about. The Ting agent who answered my name calmed me down a bit of but additionally assured me that the machine had detected a critical fireplace hazard. He even instructed me the place the hazard was situated and stated I ought to name my utility firm immediately.
The subsequent morning I had a go to from my electrical firm. The electrician gave me a skeptical harrumph after I confirmed him the data on the Ting smartphone app, however he inspected the difficulty anyway. About 20 minutes later he got here again to me, fairly stunned, and confirmed that the Ting Sensor had certainly discovered an enormous downside. A staff returned that day to place a brief repair on it, and over the subsequent a number of weeks, contractors dug up my entrance yard to switch the principle energy line, at no expense to me.
