


Student vaping is so out of control in New York City public schools that private companies are lining up to pitch the Department of Education sensors that detect e-cigarettes and similar devices.
About 14% of all U.S. high school students — and 3% of all middle school students — used an e-cigarette in 2022, according to the Center for Disease Control.
A 2021 CDC study found that 11% of New York City high schoolers were using e-vapor products at the time.
Although the DOE has yet to sign off on any contracts, the agency is reviewing products offered by at least one vendor, sources told The Post.
The products rely on wireless service to detect emissions from vaping pens and then immediately alert appropriate personnel.


“We sent two of our devices to the NYC DOE for evaluation,” said Garrison Parthemore, co-founder of Pennsylvania-based supplier Triton Sensors. “They had the devices for a few months now, and I think they are trying to pick a product to purchase.”
Some city public schools have also directly requested product information from Triton, which already supplies its sensors to five other school districts statewide, he added.
Sotor Technologies, a Ronkonkoma, N.Y.-based company that provides its FlySense 286 sensors to six charter and private schools in the Big Apple and at four school districts statewide, is also pushing to get its product in NYC schools, calling vaping in schools “a plague.”
DOE did not return messages.