Despite the fact that less flashy than a number of their related home competition, Roost’s smart smoke alarms and smoke detector batteries are really useful (and reasonably-priced) portions of a connectedhome. Now, for their next product, the agency wants to guard your own home from water damage asnicely.

The Roost smart Water and Freeze Detector is a decidedly sincere affair. Using the identical centeradditives as their smart Battery, the system provides a water leak sensor, a temperature sensor and a humidity sensor for your current WiFi setup and might alert you to things like water leaks or frozen pipesthru Roost’s iOS or Android apps. Although water damage is the primary consciousness here, more than one cheap temperature and humidity sensors will be an clean way to maintain tabs on a holiday home,specially one with some wildly varying climate situations.

The organisation claims a three–yr battery life on every sensor, which can be placed in the ones damp corners of the basement or under a leaky refrigerator with out the need for an outlet. (And clearly, they may provide you with a warning via the app when those batteries do need converting.) All informed, Roost says you need to be able to set the gadget up in much less than five minutes — assuming the WiFi gods are feeling agreeable, that is.

The device ships inside the fall of 2016, for an economical $forty nine.

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