Tag: smart home
Brinks Home plans for a tough 2025 residential market
December 11, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas — After a year of volatility in the residential security market, Brinks Home has launched a program aimed at helping companies determine the value of their portfolio and drive their next move in 2025.
“Smaller smart home security companies and dealers may not be as capable of handling the stagnancy in the number of new household accounts,” said Natalie Bracamontez, vice president of marketing at Brinks Home. “Especially sales dealers and representatives...
New ADI and Snap One store opens in Omaha
October 18, 2024SSN Staff
MELVILLE, N.Y. — ADI and Snap One announced the soft opening launch of a new store in Omaha, Nebraska, marking a significant milestone in its integration.
The company said that the new store, located at 9840 M St., Omaha, NE 68127, serves as a pilot for the company's combined vision by showcasing the best offerings across ADI and Snap One – all under one roof.
This store replaces the previous ADI location that had been serving local customers, and provides Snap One customers...
Roku announces expanded smart home integration features
October 17, 2024SSN Staff
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Roku has announced an expansion of its smart home features that offers users greater control from the comfort of their television.
The expansion improves users access to camera feeds and adds functionality to medium and small screens (aka, the phone or computer) via Roku’s Web View.
Coming in the Winter of 2024, Roku Smart Home expanded features include:
Camera Carousel: Automatically cycles through each camera feed on your TV, using motion detection to...
Smart homes, devices under spotlight during Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October 9, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine — Residential security has evolved to build higher fencers and stronger locks, but has the average homeowner considered securing their doorbell?
In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October, Security Systems News (SSN) looked at a more modern threat vector for security incidents: smart homes and smart home devices.
“CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) is excited to again partner with the National Cybersecurity Alliance...
Vivint celebrates 25 years
September 30, 2024SSN Staff
PROVO, Utah — Residential security and smart home services provider, Vivint, is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
Vivint pointed to the past quarter century, where the company said it has led home security innovation, efficiency, safety and defining what it means to have a smart home.
Vivint’s suite of smart home and security products includes a variety of home security cameras, doorbell cameras, sensors, smart locks and keypads in addition to their offered services. Vivint offers...
Home Assistant founder joins Z-Wave Alliance board of directors
September 26, 2024SSN Staff
BEAVERTON, Ore. —The Z-Wave Alliance has announced that Nabu Casa, best known as the organization driving the development of Home Assistant, has officially joined the Z-Wave Alliance Board of Directors.
The Z-Wave Alliance actively recruits smart home and IoT leaders to join, direct, and contribute to the completely member-driven organization on a mission to chart the course of the future of Z-Wave technology and the smart home. Nabu Casa joins an impressive roster of Z-Wave Alliance board...
NewsPoll: Don’t look at weather, look at costs
August 21, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine — Climate change isn’t really a consideration when it comes to the design of residential security systems, according to the respondents to a recent SSN News Poll, but the rising cost of technology certainly is.
An even 40-40 split of respondents believe climate change is not important or only somewhat important when it comes to the design of a residential security system, with the remaining 20% of respondents giving it more consideration.
“I...
Poll sees future of residential in smart home integration
May 22, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine — Security Systems News readers are looking ahead at the residential market and seeing a future in smart home device integration and AI, according to the results of a recent news poll.
The poll sought to gather industry perspectives on the factors influencing homeowners' decisions to invest in security systems, the prevailing preferences for residential security solutions, and the emerging technologies expected to impact the market.
Looking to the future...
ADT highlights new platform, relationship with Google
April 30, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
BOCA RATON, Fla. – ADT’s refocus on its core consumer security and smart home business has paid off, with a strong start to 2024, company officials said.
The company reported total revenue of $1.2 billion for the First Quarter (Q1), with end-of-period recurring monthly revenue (RMR) up 3% to $353 million ($4.2 billion on an annualized basis). Consumer and Small Business (CSB) revenue was up 5% and segment Adjusted EBITDA was up 8%. The company also reported strong customer retention,...
Z-Wave Alliance announces release of ZWLR specification for Europe
February 29, 2024SSN Staff
BEAVERTON, Ore. –The Z-Wave Alliance, a standards development organization for smart home and Z-Wave technology, has announced that the specification for Z-Wave Long Range (ZWLR) for the European market has been completed and will be made available to member companies soon.
“From the moment we announced ZWLR for the North American market, the Alliance has been hard at work to make the spec available to our valued members in Europe,” said Avi Rosenthal, chairman of the board,...