Digital Life Platform by AT&T Concentrates on Home Automation
Homeowners in the Atlanta metro can just press a button on their smartphone or tap the screen of their pad to save energy, keep an eye on the security of their family members or maximize their Atlanta home security. A new platform, which was presented by AT&T, has lately made it possible for home alarm monitoring service vendors to offer these kinds of monitoring services. This home monitoring solution aims at both Atlanta home protection and the whole United States and the international market.
In early 2012, AT&T Digital Life was published as an IP-based remote home monitoring and automation platform to provide Atlanta home alarm monitoring companies and companies around the globe with the capacities to offer their clients home security services in a customizable and web-based way. Managed through a web-based user interface, the platform will enable vendors to supply their customers with home alarm monitoring equipments like wire-free detectors and cameras with wire-free communication features that can communicate with a monitoring center inside the home. The Digital Life platform features hardware certification, application hosting, technical and integration support and licensed software. Providing a customizable experience, the platform will enable vendors to create a unique illustrative user interface and expand branding to equipments. Suppliers are able to tailor the solutions for fixed market and applications, i.e. consumer, home alarm monitoring, healthcare, etc., based on their own needs and business types.
Digital Life is based on technology from Xanboo which was founded in 1999 as one of the original cloud-based home alarm monitoring firms and was later bought up by AT&T in 2010. In 2006, AT&T provided its Atlanta consumers with a Xanboo-based program which gave over soon after. Not long ago, AT&T demonstrated its Digital Life platform capacities at the GSMA Connected House at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain from Feb 27 to Mar 1, 2012. AT&T Digital Life offers lower entry costs into a market to Atlanta and international home alarm monitoring vendors. The low cost can potentially produce new return streams and lower churn for the vendors. Home security service vendors can build their own interfaces and applications with a software developer¡¯s kit (SDK) that contains home monitoring cameras and home safety sensors at the price of $9.95/month. The platform sounds a lot like Motorola Mobility¡¯s 4 Home, presently utilized by Verizon, AT&T telecom rival that had commenced to offer its Home Monitoring & Control solution based upon Motorola 4 Home at the price of $ 9.99/month in the year of 2011.
According to CE Pro, Kevin Peterson, senior vice president, Digital Life for AT&T Mobility, the new business is mainly tuned to international markets, not the US. It means that householders in Atlanta cannot benefit from the Digital Life platform at present. Nevertheless, some staffs at AT&T still promoted that besides the international markets outside of America, the Digital Life platform is also available for Atlanta home security service vendors and vendors all over United States. Regardless of the countries or areas that will be included into the new platform, we are excited to see that home automation industry has obtained a tremendous accomplishment.
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