5 First Alert’s Smart Home “Speaker”
Your smoke alarm protects you from fire and carbon dioxide, while your speaker system lets you jam out to your favorite tunes. But, in what’s likely a first for the smart home industry, First Alert is combining those two ideas with its Safe & Sound. The newly unveiled product is a smart, Wi-Fi-enabled smoke alarm, but will also double as an in-ceiling entertainment system.
Safe & Sound will detect smoke and carbon dioxide and send an alert to a user’s mobile device if abnormalities are detected. But it also packs high-end speakers with “crisp vocals and powerful bass,” and a suite of multi-directional microphones for voice control. The Safe & Sound System is also HomeKit and Siri voice compatible. It’ll retail for $249, and is expected to ship in April.