
Additional sensor pricing is similar to what you'll pay
with SimpliSafe. Professional monitoring prices also vary from company to company.
Ring offers one of the better deals around: For $10 per month you get 24/7 monitoring with police and fire department dispatch, full remote use of the mobile app, and unlimited cloud storage for your Ring cameras. SimpliSafe's monitoring plan goes for $14. 99 and gives you 24/7 monitoring with emergency dispatch, but you'll pay an extra $10 per month for remote use of the mobile app and to receive email and push alerts. Access to recorded video costs another $4. 99 per month per camera. Lifeshield's month to month monitoring plan will cost you $29. 99 per month. Complete security systems can help protect your home and family from a variety of threats burglary, intrusion, property theft, vandalism, and house fire or flood by facilitating quick access to emergency assistance. Vivint Smart Home provides you with a security ecosystem for your whole home inside and out as well as an on call support team to assist you day and night.
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Up to four SimpliCams will work with the system though the company promises support for an unlimited number of cameras in the near future. Setup is easy and consists of entering your wireless network details and scanning a QR code in the app. Unlike with the system itself, Wi Fi is required for the cameras to work. The camera is a plain looking black plastic rectangle—which contains a round lens, privacy shutter, microphone, and LED indicator—that slides onto a black metal stand. At 4. 56 by 2. 55 by 2. 08 inches HWD and 5. 3 ounces, it's pretty standard in size as far as home surveillance cameras go. Video is captured in 720p, but looks
surprisingly good. It's also quite smooth, and
never suffered choppiness in my testing—despite the fact that the camera only operates on the 2.