Aqara’s Cord-free Presence Sensor Runs For Up To Three Years On Battery Power

The FP300 tin observe group erstwhile moving aliases stationary, and has light, temperature, and humidity sensors. | Image: Aqara

Aqara has announced its first battery-powered beingness sensor, which tin beryllium installed astir anyplace successful your location to automate smart devices arsenic your family comes and goes. Instead of having to hide a cord and scheme its location astir a powerfulness source, a brace of CR2450 coin compartment batteries powers nan Presence Multi-Sensor FP300 for up to 3 years erstwhile utilizing it pinch a Zigbee smart location setup, aliases up to 2 years if you’ve upgraded to Thread. It’s disposable now done Amazon aliases Aqara’s website for $49.99.

The FP300 uses a operation of passive infrared (PIR) and 60 GHz mmWave radar sensors to observe moving aliases stationary group up to 20 feet distant truthful you tin group up automations that move connected lights erstwhile personification enters a room, aliases turns disconnected various smart location devices aft a room has been quiet for a fewer minutes. The FP300 besides features built-in temperature, humidity, and ray sensors truthful you tin automate ambiance power settings for comfortableness aliases power efficiency.

With some Zigbee and Matter complete Thread support, nan sensor tin beryllium utilized crossed smart location platforms including Apple Home, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung SmartThings. If you instrumentality pinch Zigbee, successful summation to longer artillery life, you tin set nan FP300’s discovery scope successful nan Aqara Home mobile app, and move disconnected individual sensors to further widen its artillery life. The move to artillery powerfulness does travel pinch immoderate tradeoffs. The FP300 lacks nan multi-person detection, autumn detection, and real-time bosom and respiratory complaint monitoring while you slumber that’s disposable pinch Aqara’s much costly FP2 beingness sensor.