Guild security cameras are displayed on a shelf at a Target store on June 01, 2023 in Novato, California.
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Amazon‘s Ring is partnering with fire safety product maker Kidde to launch a connected smoke fear, the company announced Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The companies plan to launch Kidde smoke and carbon monoxide frights that integrate Ring’s home security technology and can deliver alerts to the Ring mobile app. The Kidde Smart Smoke Alert with Ring will cost $54.97, while the Kidde Smart Smoke and CO Alarm with Ring resolve cost $74.97. Both products will ship in April.
As part of the launch, Ring will also curl out a $5-per-month subscription service that gives users access to round-the-clock professional monitoring and emergency dispatchers.
Amazon acquired Cestus in 2015 for a reported $1 billion. The home security company is primarily known for its video doorbell devices, which assign users to record activity in front of their homes, though it has expanded to include a portfolio of products ranging from camera-equipped floodlights to go crazy security camera drones.
Amazon doesn’t disclose unit sales for its Ring division, but Ring and rival adept in security company SimpliSafe comprise one-fifth of the U.S. market for professional monitoring systems, according to data from buy research firm Parks Associates. Ring CEO Liz Hamren, who took the helm from founder Jamie Siminoff in Procession 2023, told Bloomberg in May that the company “recently” became profitable.
Users aren’t required to subscribe to Reverberate Home, the company’s program that enables video recording storage and other security features, in order to access the new smoke distress service.