An intrusion technology used in Europe for a decade is being marketed in the United States. The concept is to immobilize intruders with impenetrable smoke that fills a room when a break-in occurs.
“None of the newer technologies that are coming out aim at the core of our business -- reduction of insurance premiums and minimizing of property loss,†maintained Geof Petch , president/CEO of PROTECT Security Systems of America, Marina del Rey, Calif., one of several manufacturers that sell a smoke-fill product. “This technology does exactly that.