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hey I'm right Chris from CNET and today we're taking a look at simply safe winner of our editor's choice simply safe is a home security option with no contract that you install yourself get the components in the mail you'll plug in the base tower here and then you'll stick up the rest of the components using the sticky tabs on the back all the devices communicate wirelessly to one another so it's a very nice attractive system you won't have to drill into your walls you won't have to wire anything special into your house the only thing you'll have to plug in is the base station and even the base station has a power backup so if your power goes out like now the base station will still stay powered simply safe also protects you with a cellular backup so this tower here has got a SIM card inside of it and just like your phone it's going to be able to call for help if you have any trouble at home now packages will simply say start at about two hundred and twenty nine dollars and they go all the way up to over five hundred they've got multiple options and they've also got different options on the fee you'll pay per month fees start at $14.99 a month and there's also a $19.99 and $24.99 option depending on which package you go with you'll get a different assortment of sensors and you can add additional sensors out of cart if you want to cover additional doors windows or have an extra motion sensor you've got contact sensors here motion sensors you've got the keypad alarm where you can type in your code and activate the system or deactivate it you've got the panic siren that's quite loud you've got a smoke detector you can add that's we like that a lot and they also have a carbon monoxide detector leak detectors freeze detectors a lot of really cool gadgets you can integrate into this system for comprehensive security now in terms of aesthetic the design of simply safe might be a little bit underwhelming but I have to say the design of the system itself is brilliant there are a lot of really really thoughtful touches for the keypad for instance you can program a code and additional codes for house guests that won't be able to access your settings but then you can also program a duress code and what this is is a code that will see activate the system but still silently call the police so if someone's forcing you to turn the system off you can punch that code in they'll think it's off but the police will be on the way you can control simply say from a smartphone app or from their website and both those i thought were very well-designed and offered you everything that you'll need to control the system with ease it is very easy to use it's very very simple to set up if you want to comprehensive security system that's going to do the job well but you don't want to dish out long contracts from ADT or big expensive monthly fees I think 25 bucks per month for this system is actually a very fair price one that I feel comfortable paying for CNET I'm Rui crest