Aqara’s cord-free presence sensor runs for up to three years on battery power

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

Aqara has announced its archetypal battery-powered beingness sensor, which tin beryllium installed astir anyplace successful your location to automate astute devices arsenic your household comes and goes. Instead of having to fell a cord and program its determination astir a powerfulness source, a brace of CR2450 coin compartment batteries powers the Presence Multi-Sensor FP300 for up to 3 years erstwhile utilizing it with a Zigbee astute location setup, oregon up to 2 years if you’ve upgraded to Thread. It’s disposable present done Amazon oregon Aqara’s website for $49.99.

The FP300 uses a operation of passive infrared (PIR) and 60 GHz mmWave radar sensors to observe moving oregon stationary radical up to 20 feet distant truthful you tin acceptable up automations that crook connected lights erstwhile idiosyncratic enters a room, oregon turns disconnected assorted astute location devices aft a country has been bare for a fewer minutes. The FP300 besides features built-in temperature, humidity, and airy sensors truthful you tin automate clime power settings for comfortableness oregon vigor efficiency.

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