Kidde’s New Wi-Fi Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Is Designed For Your Smart Home

It’s always fascinating to see new products come out in the contemporary day, especially those with beneficial smart features. The Kidde Smoke + Carbon Monoxide Alarm with Smart Features, for example, is the newest smart home product from Home Depot. It comes with a plethora of handy features, integrations, and extras, including support for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.

It’s a Wi-Fi-enabled smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarm that can communicate with other Kidde alarms in your house if they’re hardwired together. It’s hardwired, but unlike other alarms, it comes with a 10-year battery backup. Most crucially, it uses a Kidde mobile app to give warnings, notifications, and information directly to your mobile device, wherever you are.

Why would you want a mobile app-enabled smart alarm? When something goes wrong, it may send you straight alerts. Without the use of a ladder or step stool, you can quickly stop false alarms from within your house, especially if you have vaulted ceilings. You may also use the app to inform other people who are important to you, such as friends and family. The greatest aspect is that it costs a fraction of what rivals like as Nest, First Alert Onelink, and others do.

The Kidde smart alarm is just $68 ($67.94), compared to Nest Protect which is $117 for just the hardware.

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Why Kidde is perfect for your smart home

You’ll be able to query the alarm using voice commands and by engaging with your voice assistant of choice, starting with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant compatibility built-in. That’s ideal for automating jobs and automating automations with your existing smart home solutions. Furthermore, the Kidde Wi-Fi alarm may be connected to other in-home alarms, and it will transform all of them into connected devices if they are all from Kidde and hardwired together.

Essentially, it means that when one alarm goes off, they all go off and transmit a mobile notice via the Kidde app. You will, however, only receive limited information and control over the interconnected hardwired alarms, such as smoke or CO event notifications. Kidde suggests installing numerous Wi-Fi connected alarms to get more control over your home and receive notifications on all alerts.

You’ll be able to query the alarm using voice commands and interactions with your voice assistant of choice, starting with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant built-in compatibility. That’s ideal for automating jobs and automating automations with your smart home solutions.

Furthermore, the Kidde Wi-Fi alarm may be linked to other in-home alarms, converting all of them into connected gadgets – as long as they’re all Kidde and hardwired together. Essentially, it means that when one alarm goes off, all of them go off and send a mobile notice through the Kidde app. However, you will only have limited access to and control over the interconnected hardwired alarms, receiving only smoke or CO event notifications. Kidde suggests installing numerous Wi-Fi equipped alarms to get more control over your home and receive notifications for all alerts.

Because you can check in using the mobile app, it means you can also monitor your home from afar, or check in on your family. If you’re on a business trip, on vacation, or just visiting a neighbor, you’ll stay connected to what’s going on inside your home, at least when it comes to a potential fire or CO leak. Alerts give you enough time to get everyone to safety, take the necessary precautions, and call for help, wherever applicable. Every year, on average around 430 people in the U.S. die from accidental carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, and about 50,000 people visit the ER for CO poisoning incidents. That’s precisely why alarms like the Kidde exist. Now you can receive alerts no matter where you are, potentially saving lives.