Professional monitoring and cellular also arrive for smart security system
Amazon-owned security specialist Ring has taken the covers off of its latest (and greatest) security system: The Ring Alarm Pro was announced as part of Amazon’s big hardware launch event.
Available to pre-order now and costing $249.99, the Ring Alarm Pro system looks a helluva lot like the 2nd-gen Ring Alarm setup, but there are a few notable additions to the mix.
Firstly, the hub has an Eero Wi-Fi 6 router built in, to give you a more reliable connection to not only your Ring security devices, but smart home tech that you can use as part of Alexa Routines you setup to work with your smart security system. (You can, of course add extra Eero nodes to this router to form a bigger, stronger home Wi-Fi mesh network, too.)
Secondly, you can now keep things local with a Ring smart security system. Using Ring Edge, you can insert a microSD card – you get a 64GB one as part of the Pro setup – into your Ring Alarm Pro and keep things away from the cloud.
You’ll need both a Pro system and a Ring Protect subscription to do this. Ring stats that 64GB gets you 47 hours of Ring video clips.
Speaking of the Ring Protect subscription and you can stay online with cellular now too. There will be plans with 3GB of cellular data included per month.
Cellular plays a big part in another big Ring launch: Ring Jobsite Security.
For this, Ring has teamed up with The Home Depot “to bring Ring Alarm Pro and other Ring smart home security devices to the jobsite for the first time.”
It looks like the Ring Alarm system, but orange, and protected in a padded carry case. There must be more to it than that though as it will cost $400.
Ring also announced some new features for existing users including a new security guard option whereby you can pay someone $99 a month to keep an eye on your home security cameras.
Not all of you cameras, that’d be weird. Unless you’re into that, and that’s fine. It’s your money.
Keeping things weird and the flying Ring Alway Home Cam (pictured above) also got some air time (see what I did there?) at the launch event. It’s going on sale, finally.
It costs $249.99 and, if you live in the US, you can apply for an invitation to buy it right now.
