If you are currently shopping for a smartphone, you may want to consider AT&T due to a recent announcement they made. The wireless service provider has begun offering what they call the Digital Life package which allows you to monitor and automate your home. You can control things in your house like your home security system from your AT&T smartphone for a monthly fee. Want to check in on that babysitter and make sure she is not throwing a party in your absence?
Now you can do it via your AT&T smartphone. The Digital Life application is just what it sounds like. You are able to access select digital consumer electronics products located in your home from your smartphone, meaning you will never have to return home to see if you left the stove or coffee machine on. As part of the AT&T Smart Home service, you are now able to access your home security cameras, lights, thermostats, door locks and even small appliances from the mobile application that works with Android, Apple and Windows devices.
AT&T has posted a YouTube video that demonstrates Digital Life, showing an AT&T representative unlocking the front door of her house, and even turning on her fireplace. In select instances, like the one shown in the YouTube video, you can even have access to your home’s water supply. A segment of the video shows the AT&T rep handling a water leak at her home by remotely shutting off the valve. For years we have been teased and taunted with promises of computerized homes, and now an AT&T smartphone can give you more control and peace of mind with this new application.
Kevin Peterson is the AT&T Digital Life Senior Vice president, and in a statement released this week he pointed out that we rely more and more on our smartphones in our daily lives. He stated that Digital Life delivers an “easy and convenient way to secure” our homes and protect our families, also simplifying our lives in the process. The company has actually been demonstrating Digital Life online and in print and TV media for a year now, but this is the first time the company has made that technology available to consumers.
Currently, AT&T customers in Los Angeles and Riverside, as well as those in San Francisco; Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Boulder, Colo.; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Houston; Miami; Philadelphia; Seattle; St. Louis; and parts of New York and New Jersey are able to purchase the service. Peterson said that his company hopes to deliver Digital Life to more than 50 major markets in the United States by the end of 2013.
