Cove Review: Smart Home Security

A new and disruptive security company on the market, Cove has quickly become a top smart security brand.

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By Aliza Vigderman Aliza Vigderman, Senior Editor, Industry Analyst & Gabe Turner Gabe Turner, Chief Editor
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SecurityScore:
8.7 /10

What We Like

What We Don't Like

  • No self-monitoring option: Instead, users will have to pay a monthly fee for professional monitoring.
  • Alarm Panel (touchscreen controller) battery backup: While the Cove Hub (main hub) that communicates with the monitoring center has a 24-hour battery backup, the Alarm Panel controller only has a four-hour backup.

Bottom Line

Professional monitoring for only $17.99 a month? Count us in. Cove, an innovative new security provider, had a lot that interested us, specifically its contract-free monitoring and integrations with Google Assistant and Alexa.
Citations
  1. U.S. Energy Information Administration. (2022, Nov 14). U.S. electricity customers averaged seven hours of power interruptions in 2021.
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  2. Cove Monitored Security. (2020). Cove Security Professional Monitoring. covesmart.com/monitored-security

  3. Foroughi, Cirrus. (2020). Understanding the Data Gap in Emergency Response: Evidence from U.S. 911 Agencies. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3633580