Calico Homes, in Lancashire, has changed its Carbon Monoxide (CO) Alarm specification to Aico Ei208 Lithium battery powered CO Alarms with AudioLINK
data extraction technology.
Calico Homes, which provides accommodation, supported housing and services for homeless people in Lancashire, had been using Aico Smoke Alarms for some
years but decided to fit Aico CO Alarms across its 4,600 homes following a trial.
The move to Ei208 CO Alarms has already proven invaluable. Following a CO Alarm activation by a Calico Homes customer, National Grid attended with a Calico Homes gas engineer but no CO was detected and the customer had no CO in her blood.
It was impossible to tell if the incumbent CO Alarm had actually activated, so the engineer swapped it for an Aico CO Alarm, which comes with AudioLINK data extraction technology.
Two weeks later, the Aico CO Alarm activated but this time Calico Homes was able to extract data from the alarm and take action.
Steve Hobman, Lead Gas Engineer at Calico Homes, explains: “I asked the customer what she was doing when the alarm activated and she had been using the oven. I downloaded a report from the alarm which confirmed high CO readings. After further tests, it proved to be the oven that was producing CO and the cooker was capped off.”
Steve is impressed by the Aico CO Alarm, in particular the AudioLINK data extraction technology: “These alarms give the engineer more evidence and proof of a genuine activation, making it clear which alarm has been going off as sometimes it is the Smoke Alarm not the CO Alarm. We are now able to get immediate reports from the Aico alarm which will help us to determine if a faulty appliance has activated the alarm and if any CO has been recorded along with all the other data on the report.”
The Ei208 is a quality, cost-effective CO alarm which uses sealed in 10-year life Lithium batteries, an electrochemical CO sensor and Aico’s award winning AudioLINK technology. AudioLINK allows real time data to be extracted to a smart phone or tablet using the free AudioLINK App.
