We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Motion detectors might make you think about smart security systems and surveillance, but they can be great and inexpensive tools that you can ...

My progress toward a truly “smart” home has been painfully slow. I’m sick of unreliable voice commands, flaky smart switches, and poorly designed apps. Where’s the seamless experience that was ...

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The Aqara FP2 Presence Sensor is on sale for $64.99, and if you're trying to make your smart home a bit smarter without ...

Summer is peak burglary season. Amazon just dropped its own Ring 14-piece alarm kit to a near record low, covering a full ...

Auro is a small, fast, and nearly invisible motion sensor from Basalte designed by Klaas Arnout and Sandra Maes. When mounted on the ceiling, its flat design allows it to seamlessly blend into the ...

Home automation with high usefulness and low annoyance tends to rely on reliable person sensing, and [francescopace]’s ESPectre shows one way to do that cheaply and easily by leveraging hardware ...

Bye bye low battery notifications.

Many close-proximity motion detectors use the classic, widely available passive-infrared (PIR) approach, which is effective but has limited sensitivity and adjustability, and can’t “see” through ...

Quantum computers are still a work in progress but quantum sensors are already in use at hospitals, laboratories and by ...