Alarm.com
| Alarm.com logo | |
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Security Systems, Connected Home, Smart Home, Wireless Security, Interactive Services, Interactive Security, Video Surveillance, Remote Monitoring, Fire Detection, Home Automation, Energy Management, Could Services, SaaS, Internet of Things |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Vienna, Virginia, U.S. |
Key people | Steve Trundle (President and CEO) Alison Slavin (Co-Founder, VP of Product Management) |
| Website | http://www.alarm.com |
Alarm.com is a technology company that designs and develops a connected home platform with interactive, web-enabled software services for home security, automation, and energy management. Since its inception in 2000, Alarm.com has become a significant player in the connected home space with more than 1 million households subscribed.[1] Alarm.com is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, and its services are delivered exclusively through a network of thousands of licensed and authorized Dealer Partners in the United States and Canada. Alarm.com also provides the technological backbone for a number oflarge home security dealers in North America, including FrontPoint[2], Guardian [3], Vector[4], and Vivint [5].
History
Alarm.com began as a project at the data warehousing and mining company MicroStrategy in 2000.[6] The executive team at MicroStrategy observed a weakness in the home security services market, and created a business plan to introduce web-based technologies and services to the industry. Four years later they introduced the first wireless, interactive home security service.[7] In February 2009, Alarm.com was acquired by venture capitalist firm ABS Capital Partners and became an independent, private company.[8] In April 2012, Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), a leading provider of capital to growth-stage technology companies, made an investment in the company.[9] In May 2013, as part of its expansion into energy management and smart grid technologies, Alarm.com announced its acquisition of EnergyHub.[10]
Company overview
Distributed through a network of over 3,000 dealers, Alarm.com provides turnkey residential and business wireless security systems and web services for users to monitor premises through video, web-based, and mobile apps.[11] Alarm.com has expanded into energy management in early 2010, allowing users to remotely control heating and cooling on their property by using mobile apps or logging in to the website.[12]
Products
Through a single application, accessible via the web and mobile devices, Alarm.com provides an integrated set of connected home services that include interactive security, video monitoring, and energy management. Subscribers can monitor, control and automate a range of inter-connected devices and sensors, receive notifications and alerts based on activity at their property, and personalize schedules and activity-based triggers for automation. (1) Geo-Services allow subscribers to automate actions in their home based on the location of enrolled smart phones. (2)
The Alarm.com mobile app is available for iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7. (3) There is also a version of the website for mobile browsers (m.alarm.com).
Alarm.com also designs a completely wireless image sensor that can be controlled and automated through Alarm.com’s interactive services. The image sensor uses passive infrared to detect motion in light or dark conditions, and captures images that can be pushed to the subscriber’s smart phone or other mobile device. (4)
References
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- ^ http://www.sdmmag.com/blogs/14/post/sometimes-what-didnatmt-happen-is-just-as-important-as-what-did
- ^ http://www.vivint.com/mobile
- ^ http://www.washingtonexec.com/2011/10/meet-alison-slavin-of-alarm-com-how-to-turn-a-domain-name-into-a-corporation/
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbjkyxgsR5U
- ^ http://www.abscapital.com/our-companies/
- ^ http://www.alarm.com/about/press/PressGeneric.aspx?cmid=61
- ^ http://www.alarm.com/about/press/PressGeneric.aspx?cmid=82
- ^ "Securing Your Borders, Remotely - NYTimes.com". NY Times. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
- ^ "Alarm.com Releases "Extreme Temps" Energy Management Feature". Yahoo News. Retrieved 2011-10-13.