The first prototype was produced in 1992 and clouds of smoke emanating from his buildings at regular intervals as he tested/demonstrated his “baby”. What was even more astonishing was that the burglaries stopped – never to be repeated. The ‘fog’ was so thick that visibility was reduced to less than arms length in a matter of seconds. The jungle telegraph had worked Dards Electronics had become a “
no go” area for the villain! The SmokeCloak product was launched in 1993 and produced an amazing media reaction - newspapers, radio and TV all featured this eccentric new idea. It has taken a huge amount of money, work, travel and marketing to take the product to where it is today – sold in over 50 countries. Attention was paid to the safety aspects, to prevent unwanted activations both during day and night. Protecting all types of environments from banks to military stores, police stations to schools, shops to offices, houses to castles, and the first electronic security device to obtain police approval. Now specified by insurance companies and safely preventing millions of pounds of losses every day.http://www.smokecloak.co.uk/history/
