In the not-so-distant future a person will walk in to a major retail chain like Best Buy or Wal-Mart. He will purchase a DIY home security package that consists of three video motion room monitors and a control that has a built in cell phone modem. He takes it home, sets the three motion video devices in the high traffic areas and plugs in the wireless controller.
He gives one call to the 800 number service on his Iphone and pushes the configure button on the controller. In a matter of seconds the system is auto configured, communicating and ready to use. Now the system can be armed through the IPhones and alarm video is easily pushed to the Iphone, central station and out to the local PD.
What value added services can the alarm dealer provide to make his services of greater value to the customer than the DIY system? Will modern wireless systems provide everything the end user needs and eliminate the overhead of the dealer? Will manufacturers see the light and put all the needed pieces together.
What do you think or what are you doing already?
