INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Way back in October of last year, Ring announced &Ring Protect& — a modular, no contract, DIY home security system.
After a few delays,
a bit of legal drama and Ring being acquired for a billion dollars by Amazon, the alarm is finally about to ship — albeit with a slightly
different (better!) name.
Ring Protect has been redubbed as the more intuitive Ring Alarm — a better name if only because competitor Nest
has both a security product and a totally different product (a smoke detector) called Nest Protect.
Ring base level alarm kit starts at
$199, which includes a keypad (for arming/disarming the system), one door/window sensor, a motion detector and a range extender
You&ll probably want to add more components, and, fortunately, they&re relatively cheap: another door sensor, for example, is $20, while the
motion detectors are $30.
Nest competing security system packs a few tricks that Ring doesn&t (Nest combined the door/motion sensors into
one, for example, and it got a fancy RFID system for PIN-free disarming), but it also costs $200 more… and that after a $100 price drop
that, presumably not by coincidence, just happened yesterday.
The system doesn&t require any sort of contract — but if you want
professional monitoring, it&ll be $10 a month
That a pretty good deal, especially because if you&ve got any of Ring cameras (like its smart doorbell, or its floodlight cameras), that
plan includes unlimited video storage for all of &em.
Ring says it got more products on the way to expand the system, including smoke/carbon
monoxide detectors and flood sensors.
Ring security system is up for pre-order now and, if all goes as planned, will start shipping on July
