Designed for the control freak, Alarm.com's all-in-one connected home system
offers remote access to nearly every item in your home, meaning you can watch
Fido from afar or do something far more practical like turn off the lights.
Launched in
2000, the integrated Alarm.com system and software platform supports home
security control, energy management, and video surveillance.
Switch the
lights off, adjust the thermostat, close the blinds, watch a live video feed,
open the garage door, disarm the alarm, or unlock the front door with a touch
button. With the Alarm.com system, home controls are accessible via a Web dashboard
or through smartphone applications for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows
Phone 7. Customers can also configure push notifications to stay current on
household changes as well as view a history of all actions.
"Not
surprisingly, a lot of people like using video to watch their cats and dogs
when they're traveling or at work," Alison Slavin, vice president of
product management, told CNET.
The company
works with a variety of established security companies so that people can adopt
a do-it-yourself approach to connecting their home devices to Alarm.com's
platform.
Alarm.com
has 1.4 million households using its home automation system, Slavin said. The company,
she added, has a presence at CES to better get the word out about its product,
which it touts as the only system that lets consumers perform a variety of home
control functions from one dashboard or application.
The prices
for Alarm.com's subscription-based service are based on the number of connected
products. Contracts range from $35 to $55 per month. The 12-year-old company
also charges an initial setup fee and offers additional for-charge installation
services.