Verizon to demonstrate Home Monitoring and Control system at CES

By Matthew Chung on 12/29/2010, filed in Home > Home

[CES 2011] The folks over at Verizon are doing their bit to help make home automation a little more commonplace in society as the carrier has announced that it’ll be demonstrating its Home Monitoring and Control system at the upcoming CES 2011, with a pilot program planned to kickoff at New Jersey. The system will allow users to remotely view security cameras, lock doors, control lights, thermostats and appliances via smartphones or FiOS TV boxes, similar to how other home automation systems out there work, though this will be integrated and installed by Verizon. The lucky folks over in New Jersey will receive an energy reader, smart appliance switches, thermostats, door and window locks, a smart power strip, motion sensors, an indoor pan-and-tilt camera and a fixed indoor/outdoor camera when the system is launched next’s month. With CES within touching distance, make sure you stay tuned!

CES: CES is the acronym for the (International) Consumer Electronics Show, one of the largest consumer-electronics shows in the world. Although it is held in Las Vegas today, the first CES happened in June 1967 in New York City and Bob Gavin, the CEO of Motorola was the opening keynote speaker for that first edition. Subsequently, CES was held twice a year: the summer edition was in New York, and the winter edition was in Las Vegas, that is, until 1998 when CES became a once-a-year show. CES has been the introduction place for key products and technologies, including: Pong (1975), Nintendo NES (1985), Tetris (1988), Compact Disc (1991), HDTV (1998), Xbox (2001), Blu-Ray (2003), OLED TV (2008). Check our latest CES Coverage

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