Ring provides a glass-break sensor to its Ring Alarm house safety system

Following a really busy fall, Ring is kicking off the brand new 12 months comparatively quietly, saying only one product at CES: the Ring Alarm Glass Break Sensor. Don’t really feel unhealthy in case you thought the corporate already provided such a peripheral. We actually did.

Ring makes our favourite security-focused good house programs—Ring Alarm (2^nd Gen) and the router-integrating Ring Alarm Professional—and the Amazon division simply retains making them extra succesful with add-ons like this. As soon as mounted to a wall close to glass doorways or home windows, the Glass Break Sensor will detect the sound of glass breaking or cracking as much as 25 ft away. If the sound is detected, the sensor will ship a message to the Ring Alarm hub, which is able to in flip ship a notification to your Ring app.

You can even program the hub to place the safety system into alarm mode when this occurs—be it in Residence or Away mode—and in case you’ve signed up for skilled monitoring, you’ll get a name from the monitoring heart. At your request, or if they will’t attain you, they request a police dispatch in your behalf.

Because the sensor covers a broad space, it may be cheaper to deploy a couple of of those than to put in a contact sensor on each window—particularly in case you have numerous home windows. The distinction, after all, is that the glass break sensor will elevate an alarm provided that an intruder breaks the glass. In the event that they power the window open with out breaking or cracking the glass, it gained’t do something.

Ring says its $40 Ring Alarm Glass Break sensor is accessible for pre-order beginning immediately and can ship to clients on February 16.d