Innovation intelligence brief
Innovation intelligence brief
Enables Home Insurance Industry to Reduce Risks and Increase the Safety of Home Owners With Powerful New Smart Battery.
What became of it
Completed · Medium confidence · Last verified 2026-10-17
As catalogued
Wi-Fi smart battery that turned ordinary smoke alarms into connected devices, distributed with home insurers to reduce losses.
2026 reality
Roost sells water leak and freeze detectors with a cellular SmartBase, a white-label insurer program that routes alerts to insurance partners, and Protection360, a commercial property loss-prevention solution with 24/7 alert monitoring. The smart battery is no longer presented; the Roost Security360 products and monitoring service are discontinued.
The product focus moved from the smart smoke-alarm battery to the water leak and freeze detector (already offered by 2017) and extended from homeowners to commercial property (Protection360), while retaining the insurer-partnership distribution model.
water damage is a larger and more preventable loss driver than fire for property insurers, making leak detection the stronger insurer value case.
a small specialist in insurer-distributed IoT loss prevention, competing with Ting, Flo/Moen, LeakBot and Phyn programmes.
Third taxonomy
REVIEW · Re-fetched getroost.com (2026; Protection360, SmartBase, leak detector; Security360 discontinued) and added the sourced 2017 Series B; clarified that the leak detector predates cataloguing. No acquisition found, 'independent' stands.
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Research interpretation
Classification paths, as catalogued, connect this example to the original insurance digitalization research models.