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Smart home sensors work hand-in-hand with various gadgets to make daily life more comfortable. Here are eight smart home sensors every homeowner needs.

A standard floodlight illuminates what moves. This Reolink illuminates it, tracks it with 6x zoom, identifies whether it's a person or vehicle, and lets you search the footage by typing a description.

This is a simple project in which a HC-SR501 PIR sensor is used to detect motion in a room. MQTT is used as the message broke between NodeRed and Rust running on a Raspberry Pi 4. The code detects the ...

Let’s face it: As we age, our vision and balance aren’t what they used to be. These changes to our senses can be minor annoyances but can also lead to injury, from stubbed toes to serious falls.

Aqara has announced the Spatial Multi-Sensor FP400, a new presence sensor that it says is precise enough to suss out whether you’re sitting, standing, or lying down. The FP400 builds on several past ...

Aside from its various processor, memory, and device capacity improvements, the new Philips Hue Bridge Pro comes with a killer feature: the ability to turn your existing Hue lights into motion sensors ...