Amazon’s Ring doorbells are getting fire alerts, an app store, and new sensors

Amazon is beefing up its Ring smart doorbells with new features, including new fire alerts, an app store, and a new set of Ring sensors.

The company said the new Ring sensors can detect movement, openings, broken glass and smoke, and can also monitor carbon monoxide levels, leaks, changes in temperature and air quality. It also allows you to control lighting and devices connected to your smart home network.

Amazon is also adding a new app store to the Ring app to allow users to use its cameras with third-party apps. The store is currently only available in the US, and users will be able to browse a selection of apps in the coming weeks. While the company did not specify the type of applications the store will offer, it said that these applications will focus on small business operations and daily needs around the home.

As fires become more common in drought-affected areas, the company has teamed up with fire monitoring app Watch Duty to display real-time updates and early warnings in the Neighbors section of the Ring app. Users can also share live updates using their Ring cameras in this section.

Notably, the new devices being launched support Amazon’s Sidewalk Shared Mesh feature, which creates a mesh network between the company’s Echo and Ring devices by sharing a small portion of your bandwidth, allowing the devices to work even when they’re not in the wireless range of your Wi-Fi router.

Amazon is also adding a new AI-based feature to Ring cameras that recognizes daily patterns on properties and alerts users if anything unusual occurs. Dubbed “AI Unusual Event Alerts,” the company said the feature enables the Ring camera to display specific warnings when it detects a person, based on location, actions and clothing.

For people subscribed to Amazon’s Virtual Security Guard services, these warnings may trigger automatic intervention. Last month, the company rolled out features that use video recognition to trigger Alexa responses and send you personalized notifications based on a database of 50 faces.

The company also launched the new Ring Car Alarm with built-in GPS for vehicle monitoring.