Understand the best smoke detector types for home safety and how features like voice alerts, battery life, and wireless connectivity can help protect your family
There's a wide array of options to pick from when trying to choose the best smoke detector for your home. If you're wondering how to choose a smoke detector, it helps to compare alarm types, power sources, and alert features based on your home’s layout and safety needs.
Voice-Alert Smoke Alarms
Voice-alert smoke alarms are designed to provide clear, spoken alerts that help occupants quickly understand the type and location of a potential emergency.
We offer smoke alarms, as well as combination smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, that alerts you to the type and location of the potential threat. This type of smoke detector is available in battery and hardwired versions. Each alarm is easy to install and gives you the ability to choose between 11 pre-programmed home locations. For example, smoke in the living room.
10-Year Lithium Battery Smoke Alarms
Our 10-year, built-in lithium battery alarms eliminate the need to replace batteries and late-night low battery chirps for the life of the alarm. An end-of-life warning will tell you when the smoke detector should be replaced because alarms don't last forever.
Wireless Smoke Alarms
Some of our smoke alarms are wireless and can interconnect, meaning they use batteries instead of being hardwired to your home's electrical to create a smoke alarm system. Our wireless detectors are easy to install and sound as one in the event of an emergency for whole home alerts. These detectors also provide low battery warnings when it is time to replace the batteries.
Taking the time to understand the different features of smoke alarms is an important step in your safety. There are a variety of different smoke alarm models on the market, each with its own set of features. Shop all of our smoke alarms today.