Alexa Guard: How Amazon Plans to Add Sound Recognition to Your Security System
Amazon’s Alexa Guard turns Echo speakers into audio sensors, and works with ADT Pulse and Ring Alarm.
Amazon’s Alexa Guard turns Echo speakers into audio sensors, and works with ADT Pulse and Ring Alarm.
While the large tech leaders may seem like a threat, several experts believe they’ll make the electronic security industry better and stronger.
The Alexa video recap skill is now available to owners of Ring, Arlo, Cloud Cam and August smart home cameras.
Amazon is contemplating selling homeowners insurance, a report says. If true, the company will rely on its lineup of technologies such as the Ring Alarm security and home automation system to mine customer data.
Jeff Bezos is drawing the ire of Amazon shareholders who are demanding the tech behemoth stop selling the face-tracking software tool Rekognition to the government and law enforcement.
Results from the 10th Annual Operations & Opportunities Report (OOR) will be featured in SSI‘s August publication. Amazon gift cards will be randomly awarded to three participants.
The Amazon patent would make it possible to integrate WiFi cameras with ZigBee door locks by running home automation data over power cable.
Amazon Rekognition is a deep learning-powered video analysis service that is being quietly marketed for government surveillance, among other uses.
Buying an alarm company such as Brink’s or Vivint would give Amazon an army of techs to sell more security and home automation gear and reduce the cost of truck rolls by saturating the market.
Ring’s Neighbors app is a way to crowdsource information from residents about suspicious activity.