I have a friend with an in-ground pool and she is looking for an alarm system. Does anyone have a good recommendation? They don't want the wristband one because it has to work all the time, not just when a child is wearing the wristband. Any suggestions?
My cousin had one that floated in the water. If the water was disturbed it went off and it was loud!!
A friend of mine has all her doors alarmed as well as the pool gate.
I don't know the brand...
Hope you find what you are looking for.
LBC
When my daughter wore the wrist band for a year, we only took it off for a bath and it went right back on.
There are systems that work on a bouy concept. A thing floats in the water that measures anything that is 10 pounds or more stepping in and out of the water. But that also has to work only when it's in the pool. If someone gets out and forgets to throw it back in, then it's worthless.
There are also systems that work on infared concept. Devices are put at 4 corners around the pool and anyone stepping through will set off an alarm. But again it has to be on and people will shut it off when using the pool and maybe not put it back on.
In the end after looking at all the choices, I felt the wrist band was the safest. The only false alarms we had was once when she and my husbands was walking outside when the sprinklers went off and a couple times when I put her in the bath before taking it off and once when she drooled on it in her sleep. It worked well.
Look at www.onestepahead.com - they have the floating ball ones that go off whenever anything heavier than 10 lbs hits the water.
