Product Library / Sensors & Detectors

Protocols: MATTER · THREAD^{[2][8][15][25][31][42][53][60][71]}

Plans and ongoing costs^{[1][6][21][25]}

✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.

Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.

No subscription referenced on the IKEA US product page, IKEA's smart-product support policy, or the launch press release.

Maintenance and offline use^[4][7][9]

• Batteries: 2x AAA (HR03) 1.2V rechargeable — IKEA recommends LADDA; sold separately, not included — manufacturer-stated 15 months per set
• Works without the internet: Yes — the core function runs on the device or your home network. A vendor cloud may still be involved in remote access.^{[9][24][30][41][52][65][76]}
• Matter over Thread runs locally; IKEA's support policy states smart products keep working, including on local networks without internet, after software support ends. Bluetooth is the commissioning radio (CSA cert). IP67 rated — IKEA states it suits indoor and outdoor use. Battery life is IKEA's own published figure: '2 x new LADDA AAA HR03 batteries will power this sensor for about 15 months before it needs to be changed' (IKEA's US manual). It appears in the manual, not on the product page — this record previously recorded no battery life because only the page had been read. ⚠ The same manual gives an operating temperature of 0–40 °C (32–104 °F), which is narrower than IKEA's indoor and outdoor rating implies: an IP67 rating is about water and dust, not cold, and anywhere with a freezing winter falls outside IKEA's own stated range. IKEA also limits mounting to heights up to 2 m. Radio: 10 m range in open air, 2402–2480 MHz. IKEA's product page and manual state no detection range, angle or sensitivity, and its assembly drawing prints distances of 5 m and 10 m and angles of 60° and 120° with no words saying what they measure, so none are recorded; light-level sensing is not recorded either (the Matter cert's device type is occupancy sensor only, and IKEA's spec text does not claim it). A separate Zigbee 3.0 certification exists for the same hardware, but IKEA's US page documents no Zigbee pairing path, so it is not listed as a protocol. Support duration: at least 5 years after purchase per IKEA policy, conditional on pairing with a DIRIGERA hub or TRADFRI gateway; the policy does not address the term for Matter devices used only with a third-party controller.
• Security updates: IKEA states its security-update commitment for this model as a period rather than a date: software support for at least five years after purchase, which is IKEA's stated policy for its smart products as a class and which IKEA writes as conditional on the sensor being paired with a DIRIGERA hub or a TRÅDFRI gateway; the five years count from each owner's purchase date rather than from a launch date, so no single end date exists for this model, and the same policy commits to a minimum of three years after purchase for the hub or gateway itself (the document this comes from names no country, so which markets it legally covers is not stated). That is a floor measured from a starting point the manufacturer sets — a launch or a purchase — rather than a fixed end date, so it cannot be placed on a calendar here. We record the commitment as the manufacturer states it, in our words, rather than converting it into a date it did not give. This is a published commitment, not a gap in our research.^{[19][24][30][41][52][65][76]}

Who it's for

Households already running a Thread border router in any Matter ecosystem who want motion-triggered automations at the lowest price in the category, and DIRIGERA homes pairing it directly with IKEA lights. Outdoors it suits sheltered, non-freezing spots — IKEA's IP67 rating covers water, but its stated operating range stops at 0 °C.

Sources & method

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