Comcast Adds Home Security Camera, Voice Control to Xfinity Home
The xCam is weather resistant and has a 109° field of view. The voice control is the same used for the X1 TV remote.
The xCam is weather resistant and has a 109° field of view. The voice control is the same used for the X1 TV remote.
Comcast and Xfinity Home acquired Icontrol’s Converge software platform; Alarm.com purchased its Connect and Piper home automation technologies.
The media company is using this marketing campaign to teach people the benefits of smart homes.
Medium reports the sides are in discussions. Some assets of Icontrol would go to Alarm.com and others to Comcast.
Leading SHaaS (smart home as a service) provider Icontrol is reportedly being sold to Comcast/Xfinity and erstwhile rival Alarm.com. What does this mean for the security and home automation market?
Comcast’s smart home platform already has third-party integrations with Nest, Lutron and others.
WeatherBug Home will provide the data and analytics for Xfinity Home’s energy-saving tool, EcoSaver, which learns the heating and cooling patterns of a home and makes automatic, incremental adjustments to the thermostat.
A cybersecurity firm reports the system’s radio can be hacked and tricked into reporting that ‘All sensors are intact and all doors are closed. No motion is detected.’
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ESA President Marshall Marinace said the ESA is ‘concerned with the precedent’ the ruling sets.