At the CES trade show in January, Kidde announced its first battery-only smart smoke alarm, once again in collaboration with ...

Replacing smoke alarm batteries can be a hassle. It always seems that just as soon as you've installed fresh ones, the low-battery warning is beeping at you again. Many homeowners wonder why their ...

The RSA-400 looks like your ordinary, everyday smoke detector. The included Roost Smart Battery enables it to connect to your Wi-Fi network, and that’s how it sends alerts to your smartphone if the ...

“The biggest issue with smoke alarms is that we take out the batteries,” Roel Peeters, CEO and co-founder of Roost, tells Digital Trends. That’s why he wanted to reinvent the battery, instead of the ...

While smoke alarms are quite cheap devices, the cost of 9V batteries quickly exceeds their purchase price. Added to that is the irritation of random beeps from the alarm as the battery reaches the end ...

They’re much more expensive than the typical 9-volt battery, but they deliver peace of mind that no dumb battery can. Few life events are more annoying than being awakened at 3AM by a chirping smoke ...

Replacing smoke alarm batteries can be a hassle. It always seems that just as soon as you've installed fresh ones, the low-battery warning is beeping at you again. Many homeowners wonder why their ...

A startup has come up with a simple way to make smoke and carbon-monoxide detectors more useful: a nine-volt battery with built-in Wi-Fi. The battery can alert you on your smartphone if the alarm goes ...

The "Internet of Things" is just kicking off, turning many items in the home into so-called connected devices. Replacing everything with connected devices isn't, however, cheap. Enter companies like ...

A: This annual campaign reminds citizens that when they change their clocks this weekend, to change the battery in their smoke alarms. According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the ...

SEATTLE As we move our clocks back one hour this weekend, the Seattle Fire Department is reminding people to change the batteries on the smoke alarms. Nationally, more than 20 percnet of homes do not ...