Smoke / Fire detector

Building safety has become an increasingly important issue across the world, especially in taller buildings, with early and accurate fire detection being vital to enable residents to safely evacuate in time. Smoke detectors play a vital role in this regard. With 10-year sealed battery alarms, battery replacements and late-night battery chirps are eliminated for a decade. However that means systems must be extremely efficient and reliable, while at the same time driving designs towards smaller, cost-effective batteries.

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Highlighted components are Nexperia focus products

Products: DC:DC / Battery

Products: HMI / MMI

Design challenges

Low-cost, battery driven smoke / fire detectors are increasingly a regularory requirement across the world
Long lifetime requires low leakage Schottky rectifiers
Low Voltage Low Rds on MOSFETs in leaded SOT457 and leadless DFN2020 packages
Nexperia has a broad discretes portfolio which can be used for driving a discrete IR (highlighted) or PWM IR directly from the microcontroller

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