Having a smart home isn’t just about automated routines and colorful lightbulbs. There are many upgrades that can protect your home and its occupants, some of which you’ll hopefully never need and ...

These tiny devices are smart-home helpers. They detect and alert you about motion, temperature, or open or closed doors and windows — and can tell other smart devices to act.

Here’s how it works: Each Ecobee remote sensor appears twice in Apple’s new Home app on iOS 10, once as a temperature sensor and again as a motion detector.

Kangaroo presents a very low barrier to entry when it comes to home security, but it’s extremely feature limited and it only protects your home while you’re not in it. Motion sensors are an ...

Resideo's Honeywell Home T9 Smart Thermostat comes with one temperature, humidity and motion sensor.

In the cases below, you can purchase a completed sensor and connect it to at least one major smart home hub: SmartThings, Google Home, Apple Homekit, Amazon Alexa or Home Assistant.

The Hue Outdoor Sensor is the first outdoor HomeKit sensor, and adds motion, temperature, and light sensors to automate the outside of your Apple-centric smart home.

The $249 Nest Learning Thermostat has a larger display, a better resolution and a far-field sensor for viewing time and temperature information from a distance. It works with Google Assistant and ...

Eve’s new smart home motion sensor works with Apple HomeKit out of the box and is expected to be upgraded to Matter when the smart home standard arrives later this year.

There are absolutely motion sensors that are meant to work outside. Many smart home doorbells and security cameras have built-in motion sensors that can connect to your smart lights.