American threatened to use a weapon in “the clever house”. In response, the house called the police
In the US police have detained a man who threatened his girlfriend with death with a firearm.
Sotrudniki law enforcement arrived at the scene after the hotline called 911 control center of your smart home. The incident occurred in the village of Tijeras, new Mexico, according to ABC News.
With the wide spread of various devices related to the concept of “smart home”, some gadgets from time to time become unwitting witnesses of illegal actions. Since the functions of most of these devices do not involve any intervention in such situations, gadgets usually do not affect what is happening.
However, in some cases recorded “smart house” information or accidental activation of the device, the code phrase can help the police.
Amazon Echo, for example, previously “interrogated” by the murder, and now it became known that the control center of your smart home unnamed brand (originally it was reported that this Google Home, but then the information was refuted) called the police in a dangerous situation.
In the village of Tijeras near Albuquerque Eduardo Barros was at home with his girlfriend and her daughter, between the adults ensued a quarrel, which came to the use of physical force. At some point the man picked up a firearm and began threatening the woman with punishment. According to the representatives of the Sheriff Department of the County Bernalillo, threatening to kill Eduardo Barros asked: “did You call the Sheriff?”.
A nearby control center smart home, apparently, took this issue a voice command to “Call the Sheriff” and dialed 911.
The operator on the other end heard the threat and called the police.
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The house was visited by the sheriffs, who managed to take away the kid and the woman of the house. Then arrived at the scene a team of negotiators and a police special forces SWAT, and after an hour of negotiations Eduardo Barros was arrested without the permission of the bail and he was charged under several articles of the aggravated. Representatives of the Sheriff Department believe that random police smart gadget has played an important role in the rescue of a mother and her child from a very dangerous situation.
Sometimes errors, on the contrary, lead to undesirable consequences. So, last year employees of the engineering company dismantled to the wrong address residential building in the city of Rowlett, Texas, USA. Representatives of the company referred to the error of the map service Google Maps.