Product website: https://www.tingfire.com/
The ever important privacy policy: https://www.whiskerlabs.com/privacy-policy/
My insurance company sent me one of these in the mail, for "free". They say it helps avoid fires caused by electrical faults. But it needs to be both plugged in to an outlet and connected to my wifi, so the data can be sent "home". And so I can use their app, of course.
How Ting prevents 4 out of 5 electrical fires: Ting detects dangerous electrical arcing signals โ the precursor to most electrical fires. It leverages advanced AI to analyze 30 million electrical signals per second, enabling detection with unmatched precision and speed.
What do you all think? Might the benefits outweigh the obvious privacy problems with a device like this?
Or, is there any home grown way to achieve the same thing? Thanks!
I just did a quick search. I'm guessing your insurance company is state farm. Someone pointed out that in the terms it states that the insurance company will use the data from the device to decide whether or not you'll get a claim if something should happen... Another person claimed that it didn't see a very obvious fault of an outlet arcing and turning bright red. It sounds like the big scam of the car insurance companies asking you to plug in the monitoring device on your car to get a better rate. I, myself, would stay far away from this thing.... But I'm just some random internet human.