Traditional fire alarms are getting more advanced but it’s been sometime since a smart home device has been able to integrate with a smoke alarm. With many home devices turning into smartphone devices, Roost has changed the nature of the smoke alarm forever.
Roost smart fire alarm integrates with your phone to provide a secondary alarm throughout your home. This means that you can receive alerts through wifi if your smoke alarm is detecting heat or smoke in another room of your home. This means that even if the smoke alarm in the kitchen goes off before the smoke alarm in your bedroom, you will have extra warning time. Roost also makes a series of Wi-Fi enabled carbon monoxide detectors which are capable of delivering Internet alerts to your phone as well.
Perhaps one of the coolest features of the Roost alarms is that to reset the alarm there’s no need to get up on a ladder or spend time going around the house trying to find which alarm is going off. If you happen to burn dinner one night and all of your smoke alarms are going off all you need to do is pull out your phone and hit the alarm reset button on each one of the alarms.
The application that comes with the smoke alarms also performs ongoing monitoring. The monitoring solution can check through the battery on each one of your smoke alarms to ensure that it is retaining an excellent charge. You can receive push notification alerts if you are smoke alarm battery is starting to get low and it’s time to change it over.
The RS 400 carbon monoxide smoke and fire detector cost $80 but there is a simple version that detects smoke and fire for just $60 in the RS 200.
Roost really has created the ultimate home fire detector. For more details, check out the Roost website.
