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Problem: You're off on vacation and a pipe bursts in your house which floods the place and costs big $$ when you return.
Solution: This a device that you put on an ouside faucet before you leave. You attach it to the faucet and open the faucet. The device would have a pressure sensor on it
that you could adjust so that any perceptable drop in pressure in the water lines of your house (as in a ruptured pipe) would be detected by the unit.
After a drop in pressure had been detected (indicating a ruptured pipe) a number of things could happen. The device could set off a pre-recorded alam saying "Help!!! Water damage. Call the city water department right away, please." Or the unit could open up a drainage pipe that would let water run and thus diminsh the amount that gets squirted into your closet or basement. Or the unit could open a trap door letting loose a pigeon with a "Burst pipe at 1125 Elm Street" message. The bird would fly to the water department. Bird handlers at the department would schedule a service person to turn off your water right away!
WaterCop Wireless Leak Detection System
http://www.smarthome.com/7165.html "Automatically shuts off water when a leak is detected". [phoenix, Oct 17 2004]
Water Watcher
http://www.virtualt...m/Water_Watcher.htm "Water Watch sends alarms via digital pager and email within five minutes of an event." [phoenix, Oct 17 2004]
Flood Buster Online
http://www.floodbusteronline.com/ A whole site dedicated to preventing/detecting water damage [phoenix, Oct 17 2004]
FloodBuster 2000T...
http://www.floodbus...com/ourproducts.htm "...(telephone version) uses our "Call N' Toll" technology to inform anyone anywhere in the world, by telephone, when a flooded condition exists FB2000T will also call when its own 9 volt battery is running low." [phoenix, Oct 17 2004]
What happens to pigeons that clog gutters at McDonalds
http://www.adbuster...ce/30/16-pigeon.gif [thumbwax, Oct 17 2004]
Rfc1149
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html [kamathln, Nov 01 2008]
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Yes, these are very similar ideas. The competition would be very stiff for this product. I'll see if I can come up with some improvements. TB |
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That's nice, phoenix, but none of these devices have any birds in them at all. |
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HaHa: Reminded me of rfc1149
www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html |
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I know .. I had added it there too. |
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Isn't it simpler just to turn off the water at the mains? |
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