Patent ID: 6914533

Claim:
A smoke detector comprising: a smoke sensor sensing a smoke condition and outputting an alarm signal upon detecting a smoke condition; an alarm, connected to the smoke sensor, indicating a smoke condition upon detection of the alarm signal; a communication device, connected to the smoke sensor, receiving the alarm signal and wirelessly transmitting an indicator of the smoke condition in a predetermined message format to a remote monitoring device upon detection of the alarm signal, each communication device having a unique address; wherein the smoke sensor is a photodetection smoke sensor; wherein the alarm is an audible alarm; and wherein the predetermined message format comprises at least one packet, wherein the packet comprises: a receiver address comprising a scalable address of the at least one of the intended receiving communication device; a sender address comprising the address of the sending communication device; a command indicator comprising a command code; at least one data value comprising a scalable message; and an error detector that is a redundancy check error detector.