Digital Life Platform by AT&T Focuses on Home Monitoring
People in the Dallas metropolis can just click on a button on their smartphone or touch the screen of their pad to save energy, keep an eye on the welfare of their beloved ones or maximize their Dallas home safety. A new platform, which was launched by AT&T, has recently made it practical for home alarm monitoring service vendors to offer these sorts of home security and automation services. The newly published home monitoring solution aims at both Dallas home security and all around US as well as the international market.
In early 2012, AT&T Digital Life was proclaimed as an IP-based remote home monitoring and automation platform to provide Dallas alarm systems providers and providers around the world with the capacities to provide their clients home security and automation services in a custom-built and web-based method. Managed by a web-based user interface, the new platform will enable suppliers to supply their consumers with security equipments like wireless detectors and cameras with wire-free communication features that will communicate with a monitoring center in the house. The Digital Life platform contains hardware certification, application hosting, technical and integration support and licensed software. Because of the custom-built experience provided by the platform, home monitoring and security suppliers are able to develop a unique illustrative user interface and extend branding to devices. Suppliers are able to tailor the solutions for specific market and applications, i.e. consumer products, home 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 earliest cloud-based home automation companies and was later acquired by AT&T in 2010. In 2006, AT&T had provided a Xanboo-powered program to its consumers in Dallas and elsewhere in the US. However, the program gave over soon after. Not long ago, AT&T showed its Digital Life platform capabilities at the GSMA Connected House at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain from Feb 27 to Mar 1, 2012. AT&T Digital Life provides lower entry costs into a market to Dallas and international home security and automation vendors. The low cost can probably create new profit streams and lower churn for the providers. Home automation and home security service suppliers can build their own interfaces and applications with a software developer’s kit (SDK) that includes home monitoring cameras and security detectors at the price of $9.95/month. Digital Life platform sounds a lot like Motorola Mobility’s 4 Home, presently implemented by Verizon, AT&T telecom opponent that had started to offer its Home Monitoring & Control solution powered by Motorola 4 Home at the price of $ 9.99/month last year.
Kevin Peterson, senior vice president, Digital Life, AT&T Mobility, commented that focus for this new platform is on international markets, not the US. It means that residents in Dallas cannot profit from the Digital Life platform at present. However, some staffs at AT&T came on strong with this home alarm monitoring solution as “for not only the US market, but the rest of the world as well”, indicating that the Digital Life platform can be also available for Dallas home security service vendors and providers all over United States. Despite of the countries or areas that will be included into this new platform, we are excited to see that home alarm monitoring industry has obtained a tremendous success.
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