--- title: Plumis Automist: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 description: Find out why Plumis Automist is one of the best inventions of 2023 canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324172/plumis-automist/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T05:10:55.935Z og:title: Plumis Automist: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 og:description: Find out why Plumis Automist made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324172/plumis-automist/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb6b6e4ecae19763/698a418a16d884be9bc3c602/best-inventions-2023-plumis-automist.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Plumis Automist: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Plumis Automist: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 twitter:description: Find out why Plumis Automist made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb6b6e4ecae19763/698a418a16d884be9bc3c602/best-inventions-2023-plumis-automist.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 24, 2023 # Fire Stopper Plumis Automist by [Jared Lindzon](https://time.com/author/jared-lindzon/) ## Jared Lindzon Jared Lindzon is the co-author of "Do More in Four: Why It’s Time for a Shorter Workweek"  Hans Fredrik Asbjoernsen Traditional sprinkler systems use a brute force approach to putting out house fires, dousing everything. Talking with local firefighters, Yusuf Muhammad, the chief design officer of Automists’ parent company, Plumis, discovered that this method causes more damage than necessary, and often isn’t very effective. Automist uses data and infrared sensors to put out fires [two to 14 times faster](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0379711222000704), while using 90% less water. When activated via a ceiling-mounted smoke detector, the light switch-sized, wall-mounted spray head scans the room for flames and blankets them with a concentrated blade of mist, shielding properties from excessive water damage. Catching the flames faster also reduces the amount of smoke that residents might inhale. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324172/plumis-automist/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324172/plumis-automist/"},"headline":"Fire Stopper","datePublished":"2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T05:10:55.935Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324172/plumis-automist/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","Magazine","best inventions","Best Inventions 2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb6b6e4ecae19763/698a418a16d884be9bc3c602/best-inventions-2023-plumis-automist.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jared Lindzon","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jared-lindzon/"}],"creator":"Jared Lindzon","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb6b6e4ecae19763/698a418a16d884be9bc3c602/best-inventions-2023-plumis-automist.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324172/plumis-automist/","name":"Fire Stopper"}}]}] ```