Smart Home & DIY: How Residential Security Dealers Can Get With the Times
New smart home technologies, providing more benefits and services, offer dealers tremendous growth potential over the next few years.
New smart home technologies, providing more benefits and services, offer dealers tremendous growth potential over the next few years.
DIY providers such as Ring and SimpliSafe made security systems more accessible to certain market segments, while also pressuring professional companies to launch DIY solutions of their own.
The security system’s hub is said to be the first-of-its-kind to feature NFC technology so users can arm/disarm the system with a tap of their mobile device.
While the emergence of this new sector has caused some market erosion, it has also brought fresh benefits and opportunities to professional full-service installation and monitored service businesses.
Ecobee’s Complete Smart Security service will connect to local 911 agencies via RapidSOS to dispatch responders for break-ins and fires.
A researcher discovered that the Fortress S03 WiFi home security system is vulnerable to unauthenticated API access and RF replay attacks.
The home security market continues to grow as more pro providers offer DIY solutions and DIY brands add pro monitoring.
The evolution of software-driven video management, access control and alarm system technologies has resulted in new business use cases.
The industry is fast changing thanks to large market entrants, but that doesn’t mean the Davids can’t compete with DIY — and win big.
Mainstream consumer media like Gizmodo still don’t seem to realize that professional smart home installation is an option compared to DIY.