BOCA RATON, Fla., and GENEVA, Switzerland – ADT Inc., Origin AI and Verisure today announces a five-year renewable commercial agreement under which Verisure will continue to license Origin AI’s proprietary AI sensing technology.
The agreement follows ADT’s acquisition of Origin AI, which was also announced today. ADT and Verisure represent two of the world’s largest residential security providers.
Verisure has been a user of Origin AI’s sensing technology for the past five years, assisting in the development and commercialization of the technology and consumer use cases and had been a minority investor in Origin AI since 2023, according to the joint announcement.
The agreement “expands Verisure’s existing rights to commercialize the AI sensing platform across its Europe and Latin America customer base,” the announcement says.
Key terms of the agreement include long-term rights to certain artificial intelligence sensing use cases, including for age-technology applications; provisions to enable Verisure to secure rights to these use cases beyond the term of the current agreement; defined exclusivity in professionally monitored security in Europe and Latin America; and ongoing development collaboration, including data collaboration to enhance AI model performance and support development.
The agreement is valued at $30 million over five years for development services, in addition to a per-household activation fee in line with Verisure’s existing agreement with Origin AI.
AI sensing technology enables detection and verification of human presence and contextual in-home activity without reliance on cameras. The technology supports improved alarm verification, reduced false alarms, and expanded use cases in smart aging and occupancy intelligence.
Why Did ADT Acquire Origin AI and Partner with Verisure?
“This five-year commercial agreement reflects the value and global scalability of our AI sensing platform,” says Omar Khan, executive vice president and chief business officer of ADT, in the joint announcement. “Partnering with Verisure allows us to accelerate the deployment of AI-driven protection across millions of professionally monitored homes.”
“This agreement reflects our ongoing conviction in the value of AI sensing technology to provide peace of mind to our customers,” says Cristina Rivas, chief technology officer at Verisure, in the joint announcement. ”While we remain a vertically integrated technology company at our core, our collaboration with Origin AI is an external partnership that delivers clear strategic and financial advantages – strengthening our platform while preserving control, long-term continuity and defined exclusivity across our markets.”
The purchase price for ADT’s acquisition of Origin AI was $170 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.
Once integrated into ADT’s platform, Origin AI’s sensing technology capabilities are expected to “enable new customer use cases and safety enhancements by providing deeper understanding of presence, occupancy, motion and related activity within the home,” according to the joint announcement.
“This acquisition represents a major step forward in our vision to deliver a safer, smarter home that understands context, recognizes risk and provides peace of mind, all while protecting customer privacy,” says Khan in the joint announcement.
“By integrating AI sensing into the home, we plan to add a new intelligence layer, elevating traditional security and smart home capabilities by allowing ADT to verify human presence, classify and analyze motion and add context to alarm events and other conditions within the home,” he says.
The acquisition of Origin includes more than 200 early‑priority global patents, providing “a core intelligence layer designed to power future security and smart home capabilities, including applications supporting aging in place,” according to the joint announcement.
“Joining ADT allows our AI platform to scale across millions of homes, combining enhanced situational awareness with unmatched monitoring expertise,” says Spencer Maid, president and CEO of Origin Wireless, in the joint announcement. “Together, we will move the industry to continuous, meaningful home awareness.”
ADT expects to begin commercializing new offerings that incorporate Origin’s AI sensing technology into the ADT ecosystem in 2027.
