THE days of being stuck at home waiting for a delivery, or having to snap out of the shower still soaked to get the front door open are over. It has finally arrived in Italy too “Ring Inercom”, the Amazon intercom that allows you to open the door remotely, when you want, by answering the intercom from mobile or from everywhere in the house simply talking to Alexa.
Why open the intercom remotely?
The first situation that comes to mind is to receive a delivery without having to be stuck at home waiting for the courier. With this little addition that connects our intercom with our mobile phone we can open from anywhere, anytime and talking remotely with whoever called us, perhaps to tell him to leave the package in front of the door of the house or in a special room. And if instead we are at home, but busy doing something else, we can tell Alexa to open the door for us. For example if we are waiting for dinner guests and have our hands full.
Another opportunity presents itself if we have people who need to enter but we don’t want to leave them the keys to the front door. As a cat and dog sitter or other household help. If we then lend or rent our house to friends, we can manage the opening of the door remotely without exchanging keys and perhaps leaving a spare deck closer to the front door, in a safe place.
An extra check on who enters the house
The idea came to the founder of Amazon who, in the best tradition of Californian startups, started working in the garage behind his parents’ house, thus regularly losing all his shipments. But Ring Intercom, working through its own app, it also allows you to provide some extra security. At the request of the user and only for his private use, they can register the entrances authorized by us in our gate. Yes they can provide timed access (only at certain times and only to whoever we want, such as the dog sitter) and Amazon couriers can be authorized to enter for deliveries of certain purchases we have made, thanks to the Automatic verification for Amazon deliveries. Only for that delivery, on that given day.
You can also give fixed access to people close to us, such as a relative, thanks to the functionality Pre-approved host. In any case at any time, from the App or from the site ring.com we can suspend or modify all data accesses.
Finally you can too share control of Ring with the other people who live with us. The shared users they will have the possibility of entering the building, interact with visitors who ring the intercom and manage access remotely via the Ring app directly from your smartphone.
How Ring Intercom works
Ring Intercom it connects to our existing intercomhowever old it is, and uses it for for initiate an encrypted two-way conversation through the Ring appallowing users to answer calls only when someone rings the intercom.
To install it, just follow a few steps:
Ring Intercom, how much does it cost?
Until April 27, Ring Intercom is available at ring.com And Amazon.it to a introductory price of 49.99 euros, instead of 129.99 euros. Upon its delivery, you will not be able to open it to the courier remotely. But from then on, all freedom!
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