Aqara came to CES with something to prove

Aqara came to Vegas pinch a number of smart location firsts successful its quickly increasing portfolio. It’s showcasing an awesome smart fastener that unlocks connected approach, a thermostat pinch support for Apple’s Adaptive Temperature and Clean Energy Guidance, a Matter-enabled camera, and a brace of sensors to way quality occupants and objects.

The Camera Hub G350 and Thermostat Hub W200 some usability arsenic Matter controllers, fitted pinch dual-band Wi-Fi, Thread, and Zigbee radios. They besides support Aqara’s quest for “Spatial Intelligence” that allows the hubs to enactment arsenic a cardinal constituent to link and negociate some Aqara devices and Matter-compatible products. It’s each portion of the company’s semipermanent effort to execute ambient intelligence successful the location pinch immoderate thief from AI.

The dual-lens G350 indoor camera is Aqara’s first camera to support the precocious announced Matter 1.5 spec. The pan/tilt centrifugal provides 360-degree sum captured done a 4K wide-angle lens and a 9x zoom lens. It tin fastener onto, identify, and way pets aliases group during the time and nighttime and alert owners to breaking glass, coughing, aliases crying. The camera supports up to 512GB of section microSD retention and doubles arsenic a Zigbee hub, Matter Controller, and Matter span for older Aqara devices.

The W200 thermostat has a 4-inch touchscreen and supports Apple’s Adaptive Temperature and Clean Energy Guidance features successful iOS 26. That intends it’ll automatically set the somesthesia based upon your activity authorities successful the Apple Home app — home, sleep, away, aliases extended distant — and effort to power and cool a abstraction erstwhile the grid is “cleaner” and energy rates are lower. Its show tin besides beryllium utilized to spot visitors and unlock the doorway erstwhile synced pinch an Aqara doorbell and lock. Aqara didn’t supply immoderate pricing up of the thermostat’s motorboat adjacent month.

Aqara’s Smart Lock U400 — check retired our hands-on — is simply a deadbolt fastener pinch UWB that opens arsenic soon arsenic the resident is astir six feet distant from the door. At first, that hands-free entree will require an Apple Home cardinal stored successful the Apple Wallet of the user’s iPhone aliases Apple Watch. But this Matter-certified fastener is besides “Aliro-ready,” truthful it’ll yet activity pinch integer keys stored successful wallets from the likes of Samsung (expected by March) and Google. Aqara is pricing the U400 smart fastener astatine $269.99 and it’s disposable today.

The Thread/Zigbee dual-protocol FP400 sensor uses mmWave radar to way occupants successful existent clip and find if they’re standing, sitting, aliases lying down. It tin besides observe falls and count the number of occupants, really agelong they’ve hung around, and the region they’ve traveled. Unfortunately, we’ll person to hold for Aqara to supply a merchandise day and pricing.

Finally, the Multi-State Sensor P100 is simply a versatile Matter-enabled, high-precision, 9-axis sensor that tin observe motion, vibration, taps, drops, and tilts. It tin observe doorway and model openings and closings, solid breaks, and activity of valuable objects. No value aliases merchandise day was provided.