A modular stove guard arrangement, comprising a stove guard unit and, as its parts, at least - an outer casing, - inside the outer casing, a plurality of electronic components at least partially coupled to each other to cause the stove guard unit to carry out stove guard operations, such as measuring the state of a stove and/or the environment thereof, expressing the measured state as parameter values, comparing the parameter values and/the development thereof with decision conditions and giving an alarm and/or powering off the stove in response to an exceptional circumstance found out in said comparison, and - sensors and a processor coupled thereto, in which stove guard arrangement - said outer casing defines at least a mechanical connection to a host device to allow the stove guard unit to be at least mechanically included in an operating environment of the stove , such as a cooker fan or hood located above the stove or immediate proximity thereof, and, - said outer casing defines a power input connection for receiving, through said host device , operating power for the stove guard unit , and/or said stove guard unit has a location for an internal operating-power source, such as one or more accumulators or batteries, characterized in that - said processor is adapted to identify the type of the stove situated in proximity to the stove guard unit as one of: induction stove, ceramic stove, cast iron plate stove, based on the measuring data provided by said sensors , and - said sensors comprise at least one of: electronic field sensor, microphone, radiation receiver operating in different wavelength ranges; and said measuring data is respectively indicative of the stove emitting one of: electromagnetic fields, buzz noise, visible light in the red end of the spectrum. - an outer casing, - inside the outer casing, a plurality of electronic components at least partially coupled to each other to cause the stove guard unit to carry out stove guard operations, such as measuring the state of a stove and/or the environment thereof, expressing the measured state as parameter values, comparing the parameter values and/the development thereof with decision conditions and giving an alarm and/or powering off the stove in response to an exceptional circumstance found out in said comparison, and - sensors and a processor coupled thereto, - said outer casing defines at least a mechanical connection to a host device to allow the stove guard unit to be at least mechanically included in an operating environment of the stove , such as a cooker fan or hood located above the stove or immediate proximity thereof, and, - said outer casing defines a power input connection for receiving, through said host device , operating power for the stove guard unit , and/or said stove guard unit has a location for an internal operating-power source, such as one or more accumulators or batteries, - said processor is adapted to identify the type of the stove situated in proximity to the stove guard unit as one of: induction stove, ceramic stove, cast iron plate stove, based on the measuring data provided by said sensors , and - said sensors comprise at least one of: electronic field sensor, microphone, radiation receiver operating in different wavelength ranges; and said measuring data is respectively indicative of the stove emitting one of: electromagnetic fields, buzz noise, visible light in the red end of the spectrum. <EOS>