China
Detection specialists, and the only connected leak sensor here
Two X-Sense products appear here, and the leak detector fills a specific gap in the catalog.
Every other water alarm in this catalog makes a noise in the room it is in. If nobody is home, that noise is a tree falling in a forest — and an empty house is exactly where a leak does its worst work.
The SWS54 sends a push notification. In a holiday home, a second property, or any house whose occupants work away, that is the difference between an hour of water and a weekend of it, and a weekend of it is a floor, a ceiling and a kitchen.
It also has six sensing points, four low and two higher, and X-Sense states detection from 0.4 mm of water, an IP66 housing and an alarm of up to 110 dB on both the sensor and the base. The listing does not say exactly what the upper points are for.
The AS12 includes a physical keypad. An alarm controlled only by an app is controlled only by the people with the app, and a household where a cleaner, a visitor or an older relative cannot disarm it is a household that stops arming it. The other kits in this hub answer that too, with a screen panel and remotes (HUXGO), RFID tags (Tugard) or an RFID keypad (Goliath); the AS12 does it with a keypad.
A notification is worth what you can do with it. If you are two hundred kilometers away, you need a neighbor with a key and a stopcock. Arrange that before relying on the sensor.
8 contacts, 2 motion detectors, keypad · app control · arm and disarm by keypad or app
An X-Sense alarm kit: eight door and window sensors, two motion detectors and a keypad, with app monitoring and control.
Best for: A household that wants a physical keypad by the door rather than only a phone.
Wi-Fi direct with NO HUB REQUIRED, stated in the title · leak AND freeze · one detector, eighteen dollars — the cheapest connected detector on this shelf · AND THE LISTING HAS NO BULLET POINTS AT ALL: the title is the entire published specification
The cheapest connected detector here, on the only listing on this shelf with nothing written on it but its title.
Best for: One cheap connected sensor from a smoke-alarm maker, bought with questions asked first
≈ $18
Wi-Fi · push notifications · 2 upper and 4 lower sensors · sounds locally and on the base
A connected leak detector: X-Sense states six sensing points — two upper and four lower — with a push notification to a phone as well as a local alarm and a tone from the base station.
Best for: A property you leave — a holiday home, a second home, or any house whose owners work away.
