Smart smoke detectors and rescue windows

Good day,

we are planning the installation of a smart home system for our attic apartment and would like to integrate smart smoke detectors in this context. These should then ensure that, in an emergency, all electric shutters are promptly raised. There are corresponding shutters on almost all windows installed by the previous owner, but without an emergency system for the event of a power failure (especially at the emergency window). Only roof windows are partially without shutters, but these are not suitable as emergency windows.

Is this approach fundamentally sensible with a smart home system? It concerns an attic apartment in NRW. For a new building, there would certainly be completely different possibilities, but in our case, everything was already fixed in the 90s. And with the installation of the smart home system, the existing shutter motors could be left as they are.

I would appreciate your opinions. Thank you very much.

Opinion: It’s annoying when the power goes out... Then the smart home doesn’t help you much either. At least there should definitely be a hand crank for the emergency windows!

But the crank is not so easy to install afterwards, is it? I hope the question is not too silly.

Unfortunately, I do not know that. However, this solution would absolutely take priority over a smart home control system for me. Of course, you can also integrate that additionally – it’s not wrong if the shutters automatically open in case of fire.

The question is only how long the cranking takes. I lack experience with that, but maybe someone can assess it.

It does not really matter how long it takes. Without a crank, the roller shutter will not go up at all if there is no power.