ADT Inc., a provider of security, interactive and smart home solutions serving residential and small business customers in the U.S., has acquired Origin Wireless Inc. (d/b/a Origin AI and Origin), bringing Origin’s AI sensing platform and related intellectual property into the ADT ecosystem. 

Origin AI’s sensing technology enables the home to better understand classification of motion and human detection without cameras, audio or wearable devices. Once integrated into ADT’s platform, these capabilities are expected to enable new customer use cases and safety enhancements by providing deeper understanding of presence, occupancy, motion and related activity within the home.

“This acquisition represents a major step forward in our vision to deliver a safer, smarter home that understands context, recognizes risk, and provides peace of mind, all while protecting customer privacy,” said Omar Khan, executive vice president and chief business officer, ADT. “By integrating AI sensing into the home, we plan to add a new intelligence layer, elevating traditional security and smart home capabilities by allowing ADT to verify human presence, classify and analyze motion, and add context to alarm events and other conditions within the home.” 

The acquisition of Origin includes a portfolio of more than 200 early-priority global patents, providing a core intelligence layer designed to power future security and smart home capabilities, including applications supporting aging in place. 

By adding real-time understanding of presence and activity within the home and analyzing any anomalies, this technology adds critical context with the potential to reduce false alarms, improve municipal compliance and enhance coordination with first responders. AI sensing also enables smarter automation and personalization across the connected home, with potential applications that range from occupancy-based comfort settings to aging in place and health solutions.

“Joining ADT allows our AI platform to scale across millions of homes, combining enhanced situational awareness with unmatched monitoring expertise,” Spencer Maid, president and CEO, Origin Wireless. “Together, we will move the industry to continuous, meaningful home awareness.”

ADT and Origin are building a foundation for the next phase of intelligent home protection, to transform reactive alerts to real-time understanding of what’s happening inside the home, improving accuracy, safety and customer privacy. ADT expects to begin commercializing new offerings that incorporate Origin’s AI sensing technology into the ADT ecosystem in 2027.

The purchase price for the transaction was $170 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.

Following the acquisition, ADT also signed a five-year renewable commercial agreement under which Verisure will continue to license Origin AI’s proprietary AI sensing technology.

Verisure has been a user of Origin AI’s sensing technology for the past five years, assisting in the development and commercialization of the technology and consumer use cases, and had been a minority investor in Origin AI since 2023.

The agreement expands Verisure’s existing rights to commercialize the AI sensing platform across its Europe and Latin America customer base. Key terms of the agreement include long-term rights to certain AI sensing use cases, including for age-technology applications; provisions to enable Verisure to secure rights to these use cases beyond the term of the current agreement; defined exclusivity in professionally monitored security in Europe and Latin America; and ongoing development collaboration, including data collaboration to enhance AI model performance and support development. The agreement is valued at $30 million over five years for development services, in addition to a per-household activation fee in line with Verisure’s existing agreement with Origin AI.

AI sensing technology enables detection and verification of human presence and contextual in-home activity without reliance on cameras. The technology supports improved alarm verification, reduced false alarms, and expanded use cases in smart aging and occupancy intelligence.

“This five-year commercial agreement reflects the value and global scalability of our AI sensing platform,” Khan said. Partnering with Verisure allows us to accelerate the deployment of AI-driven protection across millions of professionally monitored homes.”

Cristina Rivas, chief technology officer, Verisure, added, “This agreement reflects our ongoing conviction in the value of AI sensing technology to provide peace of mind to our customers.  While we remain a vertically integrated technology company at our core, our collaboration with Origin AI is an external partnership that delivers clear strategic and financial advantages — strengthening our platform while preserving control, long-term continuity and defined exclusivity across our markets.”