Do you have too many gadgets and too many remote controls that operate many items in your home? Most likely you’ll answer, “Yes.” Now imagine a unified control panel that will control your home essentials like lights, thermostat, alarm and video using three screens: your TV, your computer and your smartphone.
Verizon not only is imagining a “connected home,” we’ll unveil a new connected home service soon, and Verizon’s Ann Shaub is previewing it today at the 2010 Digital Home Summit for broadband providers.
The connected home will give you quick and easy control over your home no matter where you are. It will enable you to check up on your home security, or turn on lights before entering your home at night, or schedule the house to turn on combinations of lights at a certain time if you’ll be home later. Maybe you’d want to also adjust the thermostat so you return home to a warm (or cool) house. It all will be easily managed from your computer, from your Verizon control panel or from your mobile phone.
The connected home will leverage Verizon's broadband networks – whether all-fiber-optic, wireless or copper-based – and help our customers live the “digital lifestyle” that has been discussed for some time.
You’ll be able to:
The personalized connected home experience from Verizon is coming. Stay tuned.
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