Video doorbells can do much more than just show you who is on your porch; with new integrations with smartphones and other smart home products, video doorbells have become one of the hottest trends in smart home and should be part of every dealer’s offering.
It started out as a great concept. Maybe you remember walking up to certain porches that had large panels with dated speakers and a red button, announcing the fact that this home was equipped with Jetsons-like technology of a doorbell intercom. It was a great concept, but even when cameras were added, the technology never really became mainstream.
Recently, however — in fact within the past three to five years or so — the modernized concept of video doorbells have become increasingly popular and are beginning to pop up everywhere. “Doorbell cameras have been around for a while, but now you’re looking at a product category that is one of the hottest in the entire space,” says Mike Buckingham, director, August Pro for August Home Inc., San Francisco.