Voice-controlled digital assistants such as Amazon Echo are catching on quickly. Among other things, these products can control security systems. Here’s what this means for security dealers.
Digital voice controlled assistants such as Amazon’s Echo and Dot offerings and Google Home were a hot item this past holiday season — and they will begin playing an increasingly important role in controlling security systems this year.
Once heavy advertising for those products started late last year, “we had numerous phone calls asking if we could support stuff like that. The buzz has been generated,” comments Courtney Brown, owner of Statesville, N.C.-based security dealer Lake Norman Security/Alarm South.