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Gadgets: Smart thermostat

Upgrading from a basic thermostat to a smart thermostat offers many advantages, with the most significant being long-term ...
Smart home sensors work hand-in-hand with various gadgets to make daily life more comfortable. Here are eight smart home ...
Researchers have developed a new reliable and durable sensor that can work in temperatures as high as 900 degrees Celsius or 1,650 degrees Fahrenheit and can be used in multiple industries. Extreme ...
Window alarm sensors are an essential part of home security systems, alerting you to unauthorized entries by monitoring window openings, glass breaks and motion. Each window alarm sensor type serves a ...
IKEA's transition to Matter makes smart home automation affordable. Discover how to secure your home with their $8 door ...
Door sensors detect door position (i.e., open or closed) based on the precise gap between the magnet and the reed switch.
Amazon's Prime Day sale is a good chance to replace products that help keep your home safe. For example, right now you can ...
Installing a smart water sensor can save you a lot of money and hassle. The top leak detectors we've tested immediately alert you to issues and even shut off your home's water supply.
This Amazon water leak detector has been dubbed a "life-changer." (Photo via ). Water damage is one of those household problems you hope never happens, but when it does, it can get expensive fast.
Announcement here, store product page, seems to be new entries in a proprietary 900 Mhz based system they're trying to get back into a subset of IOT with after abandoning MFi all those years ago. Been ...
I’ve been writing about smoke detectors for a few years. That often involves researching fire statistics, so when I see something like the fact that the death rate from a fire is 60 percent lower in ...
An often overlooked section in the datasheets for popular humidity sensors like the BME280 and DHT22 is the ‘non-condensing humidity’ bit, which puts an important constraint on which environments you ...