The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Unveiling Next-Gen Smart Alarms and Air Quality Monitors: Sensereo at CES Show 2026

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

Unveiling Next-Gen Smart Alarms and Air Quality Monitors: Sensereo at CES Show 2026 Sensereo.com About the Guest(s): Roy Chen and Cheng LLZ are the innovative minds behind the company Sensereo. Roy Chen, the CEO, has driven the vision of creating next-generation environmental intelligence products, focusing on enhancing individuals’ understanding of their living environment. Cheng LLZ, the co-founder, shares this vision and works closely with Roy to develop and promote intelligent devices that integrate seamlessly into modern smart home ecosystems. Episode Summary: Dive into a groundbreaking episode of The Chris Voss Show, where host Chris Voss interviews Roy Chen and Cheng LLZ, the dynamic duo behind Sensereo, a company at the forefront of developing intelligent environmental sensors. This episode zeroes in on their innovative products designed to revolutionize how we interact with and understand our home environments. In a detailed exploration, the founders shed light on Sensereo’s flagship product, the MS One Next Gen smart smoke alarm, which boasts seamless integration with existing smart home systems like Apple Home and Google Home. The product promises to keep users informed of potential smoke hazards even when they are away, providing crucial alerts that can lead to life-saving actions. The discussion also covers their upcoming product, AIR0, a modular design air quality sensor that customizes and monitors various parameters to ensure optimal living conditions. With a blend of humor and serious insights, the founders share the story behind starting Sensereo, driven by the need for enhanced home safety. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in emerging smart technologies and home safety advancements. Key Takeaways: Sensereo’s MS One smart smoke alarm integrates with existing smart home systems, offering notifications in case of smoke detection even when users are not home. The idea for Sensereo originated from a personal insight after watching a tragedy in “Manchester by the Sea,” highlighting the critical need for smarter smoke alarms. AIR0, the newest product by Sensereo, is a modular air quality sensor that provides tailored monitoring for various rooms, enhancing indoor environmental awareness. Sensereo maintains a global presence with teams across China, the UK, and Singapore and emphasizes consumer-focused technological solutions. Upcoming plans for Sensereo include a Kickstarter campaign for new product launches, emphasizing continuous innovation in consumer environmental intelligence devices. Notable Quotes: “After watching ‘Manchester by the Sea,’ I wanted a smoke alarm that could alert me while I’m not at home.” – Roy Chen “We are building the next generation of environmental intelligence products to improve people’s understanding of their living environment.” – Roy Chen “Air is something very hard to understand. We are trying to build more sensors to help people better grasp it.” – Cheng LLZ “AIR0 is a modular design air quality sensor that caters to different rooms’ unique requirements, ensuring precise detection.” – Roy Chen “Our philosophy is to create intelligent products that integrate seamlessly into existing smart home ecosystems without needing additional apps.” – Roy Chen

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there are there. We just to revisit with our good friend Gary Shapiro, who's the president of CSNCTA, I should say, and gave us our forecast for what we're going to see at CS. Today we're interviewing a wonderful young man called Roy Chen and his company Sin Serio. I think it's pronounced, and we're going to get into it with him. Do I have those pronations right, Ray, Roy? Yeah, that. Hi, Chris.

Yes, that sounds about right. So I will pronounce it at sense real. Sense at sense. Real. I'm really real 60. Can you give us a dot com so people can look that up on the interwebs? Yeah, so basically sense real.com. S-E-N-S-E-O-com.

And you guys are calling in from the floor of one of the press previews, aren't you on CS? Yes, we are currently at C-E-S unveiled press event. Good stuff, man, getting that press. Tell us a 30,000 over what you guys do there at the company. So basically, as a company, we are building next generation environmental intelligence. But environmental intelligence were meant to improve people understanding of the environment they are living in. Ah, now I see one of the featured products that's on your website is the next-gen smoke alarm. Do you want to talk to us about that?

Yeah, sure. So that is our very first product. It's called MNS1. That is a metal of red smoke alarm. Basically, you will connect automatically to your smart home infrastructure. Say, like Apple Home or Google Home, it will enable people to receive small alarm notification even when you are not at home. So that is a key advantage of this product. Without people go to buy another hub or any other things, it will connect automatic to the current infrastructure.

Wow, that's pretty awesome. I used to have a product list about 10 years ago, and the company went out of business and the unit stopped working. And it was awesome because it would alert me if I was. Like, say, at the grocery store or traveling, it would alert me that there was smoke found at home. It would ask if it wanted you to dial 911 to, you know, call the emergency crew and all that stuff. So it's pretty wild, and I think it's great that someone's coming out of this product again, because I always thought it was such a miss that that products didn't survive. So this is really cool.

Why did you guys settle on this project? Was there any stories behind what you guys did in starting this company or this particular product itself? Yeah, we have a relatively interesting story that it's after I watched a movie called Manchester by the Sea. The beginning of that movie is that the man went out of his house to buy groceries, and his house got burned out, and everything was destroyed, including his trains. So that's just really a tragedy. After watching that movie, I was thinking that I want to get a smoke alarm that alert me when I'm not. So that's the reason that I want them starting trying to search such a product online.

And I didn't find a very good product. And all of those so-called smart smoke decanter, they all require me to buy a hub. And I don't want to buy additional hub because I already have so many soft homes in my house. So I said maybe that's a very good business opportunity. So we started our company, Setsville and our reflection. It's a lot of the smoke alarm products. Who knew? You know, that's really important.

I mean, you think about if you're not at home and the fire alarm goes off, there's no one there to hear it. And I'm really surprised that there's not more of this technology around, you know, to call for help. You know, if you've got cameras in the home, of course, then you can check in and see what this smoke is maybe. You know, I keep my dogs at the house when I travel sometimes. I want to know if there's a fire at the house or smoke at the house so this one can save their lives. If you have children or family, that's important as well. Now, is this product available yet, or when is it possibly coming to market, do you anticipate? Yes, this product is already available.

We launched this product with pre-order in May 2025 when he started mass production and sent to our customers, things June. Last year, we have shipped solace of this product to a customer, global. Well, that'll be, that'll be great. That'll be great. I'll look forward to seeing that because I don't know why this technology isn't more of these smoke alarms. It's crazy. What other products are you guys bringing to market? Yeah, we're a very big sign here to introduce our nest flagship products called IRO, AIRO. Basically, it is a modular design, air quality design centers, so it will have multiple air quality settings, the set in pause.

Because every room has different requirements for air quality, say that the garage and the living room, They all have different air quality parameters to measure. And currently we are finding existing products. They have multiple, say, like 5 in 1, or like 3 in 1, air quality monitor. They cannot detect accurately for every type of parameters that people are interested in. And it is not focused. So in that sense, we build our all. I can show you.

Yes, please, too. It's like this. So it has a central hub. It can connect power the module. The module can be connected to the central hub. And each module is battery powered and it can last from all the 30 days. So people need to worry to charge it. So do you take each one of those into the rooms that you want to have them put in

and they monitor those rooms? Is that how that works? Yes. So you can put the relevant parts in each room, it will occur. So if you are sweeping pretty in your home, we might consider to have a VOC detection pot, and if you have a very bad outside air quality since last year, there was a very bad wildfire that caused a lot of particles in the air,

it might consider to have the PM parts here the window to keep monitoring and they have a pilot to peace. Air quality is really important. The state that my mom lives in in Utah, they have a lot of, they have a lot of, I forget what they call it, but it's a, there's a small valley that the big city is in, and they have this layer of clouds that will cover it, and it will hold all the smog and the bad air in,

and it just creates this compression unit. And so, yeah, air quality is really important and know what's going on. I mean, even your house, you know, you can have black mold, or different air quality issues. So I think that's great. So you guys really focus on these aspects of products for consumers then. Yes. So we are a sensor company.

Do you have any other products? Maybe you can talk to us about that our future coming out, or is this the focus right now? Yeah, so basically our company philosophy is to build the next generation environment called intelligence. So basically, what Apple product tell people to that. to understand the environment that they are living. This will be our future path of growth based on.

So in the future, we might consider to expand more successful towards to our indoor air quality monitoring system. For example, there are people caring about raiden gas. We might consider to add that part with our system. And at the same time, we might consider to have another system of outside air quality. If people have done totally on the playground outside. So yeah, in short, we're still quite a full of the same thing.

Well, this should be quite the thing. Is this your guys' first foray into startups? Yeah. So it is our first attempt in the startup industry. Previous city, the Herrera team of Nigeria and Beez Prison. You know, where are you guys based out of? We have team based all over the world. We have some team member.

So our headquarter is in Shenzhen, China. Okay. Now we have team member based in the UK and in Singapore. Well, this should be pretty interesting because, like I say, these smart smoke alarms and fire alarms, I mean, you'd think that this technology would be everywhere. And, you know, it would be something that people can, have, you know, I want to know if there's a fire in my house.

You know, what would be, I guess, I guess technically carbon monoxide is a big deal. Are you guys going to do, what's another thing that you can have in your house that's really bad? Not carbon oxide, but maybe it is carbon oxide. Oh, there's, what's the other sensors for radon and stuff like that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's the other thing.

It usually pops up in houses. So people. So wait, wait, wait. Right. Yes, so we are doing a pre-order combination of carbon monoxide and smoke alone. It's a combination alone. So just as you mentioned, because we have heard from custom, CO oil gas is pretty dangerous and important to beautiful safety.

We build the world first combination smoke and CO alone that work with a spot of the production. You know, I have two dogs and sometimes I go of the Taco Bell buffet. I don't know if you guys ever go to Taco Bell buffet, but sometimes the farts around here can get out of hand. Is there any way you can

have a fart alarm as well as what's doing this? Yeah, that's a very interesting idea. Yeah, we need to better understand what the cost of farts. There should be some

camera bowls and... Sure. Well, it's Taco Bell particles, I think, probably. Yeah. So, yeah, if you ever come up with something like that, it'd be good to know. That way I can leave the room. Because sometimes my dogs, they can dump a fart that's nuclear. And your eyes will start melting and bleeding, kind of like that end scene of Indiana Jones

with the Nazi guy and his eyes bleed and his face belts. It's kind of like that. You guys ever come up with something like that? That's pretty bad. Just an innovative idea. No one's done it yet. It might be, you know, it might be a big money with the ladies, you know. They don't like going to the park.

Yeah, that's a very, very, very, very interesting idea. Just as you said, air is something very hard to understand. So we are planning to build more devices that the device. This is how to help you cooperate, understand it. This is why they pay me five bucks a day for these ideas. They get five bucks a day before taxes, too. Anyway, what else? What else should I be asking you about your product that people, you want them to know?

You're connected with Samsung's smart thing, so that's a good connection to have. What else? Yeah. So we're actually a partner with Apple Home, Samsung Smart Settings, and the Home Assistant, and the Home Assistant, and the Home Meat. So basically all major smart home ecosystem of all of partners. Smart alarms that are smart. And so do you have an app on your phone that they notify you on or they send your text message?

How does that work? Yeah, we don't. So for fire alarms, we don't require people to have a separate app. So if you have a built-in app with an iPhone, you have a home app. Okay, sure. And if you have Samsung, you have the smartest things, you can just add our device. Okay. To the file, you're not needing another separate app.

And for our air quality system, it would be better to have an app because you can monitor and track the history records of air qualities. In that sense, it will require an app for our air quality to hold us, No app for fire safety. Nice. That sounds awesome then. That sounds awesome. This should be pretty exciting.

What booth are you guys in there at the big show when you guys are fully settled in on the sixth? Sure. So for CES, our booth is at Eureka Park at Venetia Expo, and our booth number is 6167, 6167 at Venetian Expo, was a pleasure to meet you I don't know if your co-founder

wants to jump in and throw anything out are we good there with him yeah do you want to say hello to the audience hey go ahead and use yourself sir

hey what's your name baria my name my name is Zay C-H-M-G you may call me L-O-V and you're the co-f what do you what do you think so far the product uh anything he missed maybe you want to tell us

about um i think i think he concluded it pretty well um it's good he included it pretty well if you have any questions or um you have questions this person Oh, yeah, yeah, we have a Kickstarter campaign launch soon. Oh, okay. So we'll come to sign. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, if Steve will get us a link for that, we'll put that on the show so that people can get that and all that good stuff. So give us your dot-coms as we go out and tell people how they can find out more about you. Sorry, what's... Go ahead and give us your dot-coms as we go out, folks. Can't hear you. Let's see. Can you hear me now? Oh.

And here. Oh, sir. Testing, one, two, three. Testing one, two, three. Okay. Yeah, I can't hear that. Give us your dot coms as we go out. Your dot com, your website

Visit us at Sensorial.com Yeah, visit us at Sensorial.com If you would like to sign an end up or I wrote a modular air quality monitor Visit J-I-R-Sensario S-E-N-S-E-N-S-T-R That's C-N-S-E-R dot com All right, thank you very much for coming on.

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