Ring Alarm will send a notification to your smartphone, informing you of the system’s status and which sensor triggered the alarm. The app will tell you which sensor triggered the alarm, but you’re on your own from there. If an alarm is tripped, a not-terribly-loud (105dB) siren in the base station sounds off, and an alert is sent to your smartphone that launches the Ring app (a more powerful siren from Dome is on the short list of supported third-party devices). That goes double for people who already have other Ring devices, because it includes video storage in the cloud for an unlimited number of Ring cameras.
You can monitor the system yourself, but at the price Ring is charging for professional monitoring-just $10 per month ($100 per year if paid annually) with no long-term contract-it would be foolish not to sign up for it. The very affordable ($199) starter kit includes a wireless base station, a keypad for arming and disarming the system, one door/window sensor, one passive infrared motion sensor, and a Z-Wave range extender. And in an interview with Ring Solutions president Mike Harris earlier this week, I learned that’s exactly what Ring intends to do.Įach of the key components in the Ring Alarm home-security system is powered by a Z-Wave Plus chip (but the base station also has a ZigBee radio).īut let’s go over what it can do today, first. But it lacks nothing needed to support those and similar devices down the road. Ring Alarm doesn’t support smart lighting controls, door locks, thermostats, garage-door openers, or other common smart home products today, and there’s a very short list of supported third-party products.
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