Have you or someone you know ever been distracted while cooking on the stove?  It happens more often than you think.  Leaving the stove unattended or forgetting to turn off the burners can be disastrous.  If you’re looking for a solution to make cooking safer for you or a loved one, check out Toch Smarturns Intelligent Stove Knobs.

Before diving into the features of Toch Smarturns, here are a few facts (from TochTech Technologies):

• There are over 170,200 house fires in the US each year
• 94% of house fires are a result of fires starting in the kitchen (usually from unattended stoves)
• Further, there are over 510 injuries and deaths each year from house fires
• Risk of injury and death increases significantly for those 70 years and older
• Property damage from house fires is about $1.2 billion in the US alone

TochTech Technologies developed Toch Smarturns Intelligent Stove Knobs to help make cooking safer.  They are easy to install and operate: simply replace your stove knobs with the Smarturns, mount motion sensor, connect the hub, and voila – you now have a “smart stove”!

Once the smart knobs are installed and the burners are turned on, a sensor monitors the stove user’s movements.  If the stove is left unattended for a while, Smarturns will alert the stove users via a local alarm.  In addition to alerting the user, it can also notify caregiver(s) via mobile phone notifications.

Here’s more on the product’s development:

“TochTech Technologies Ltd has been prototyping and creating dozens of versions of the design of the intelligent knob incorporating its patent-pending technology. Significant effort has been put into studying the different types of stoves and their associated knobs. Close attention was paid to the details such as, the weight and feel of the knobs, ensuring the highest level of design and function.”