GreenPeak Technologies announced the expansion of its Smart Home portfolio with the addtion of a reference design for a low cost Passive Infra-Red (PIR) sensor with outstanding performance.GreenPeak ...

Unlocking deeper control and reliability with ESPHome projects that turn everyday sensors into powerful smart home upgrades.

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SwitchBot has launched its new battery-powered Presence Sensor, featuring a 60Hz mmWave radar, PIR sensor and light sensor. It offers continuous, highly accurate presence detection and has up to two ...

A new motion sensor incorporates micromachined thermal transistors to facilitate human presence and motion detection in security systems, home automation equipment, and Internet of Things (IoT) ...

The FP1E’s millimeter wave technology provides for a much more nuanced look at whether a room is occupied or not, but you’ll need one of Aqara’s Zigbee or Matter smart home hubs to use it. Whatever ...

Sometimes, projects start in somewhat unlikely places. This one began when [Istvan Raduly] scored a fake raven at a neighbor’s garage sale and decided to turn it into a thunder-and-lightning ...

Smart homes are becoming more and more intelligent by the day, but there’s nothing quite as smart as a home that can detect where you are in order to automatically trigger a wide variety of different ...

Motion detection is the magic ingredient in the current wave of do-it-yourself home security cameras. Thanks to built-in sensors that vigilantly monitor their field of view for movement, you can go ...

Motion detection has become an essential ingredient in traditional electronic security and now it is being utilized in access control and video surveillance systems. With more applications and so many ...

(Passive InfraRed sensor) A device used to detect motion by receiving infrared radiation. When a person walks past the sensor, it detects a rapid change of infrared energy and sends a signal. PIR ...