Xfinity Home Security makes home monitoring and management Comcastic (video)

Available Today in different Market Areas Including Philadelphia, Houston, Portland and Jacksonville with Additional Markets Launching Before End of the Year

Press Release Source: Comcast Corporation On Wednesday June 8, 2011, 10:00 am EDT
PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq:CMCSA – News), among the nation’s leading providers of entertainment, information, and communications services, today announced it has expanded its new home security business into six additional U.S. market areas. Xfinity Home Security offers traditional home security components, like police and fire alarm protection backed by 24/7 professional monitoring, in addition to the power to regulate digital thermostats, turn lights on or off and watch secure live streaming video from wireless cameras while far from home. The service also comes with a brand new Xfinity Security app, that is available free of charge on Apple’s iTunes App Store®.

“Xfinity Home Security brings digital home monitoring to a brand new level,” said Mitch Bowling, Senior Vp and General Manager of recent Businesses for Comcast Cable. “It comes with more than a few broadband-based technologies that empower customers to remain better connected to their home virtually anytime, anywhere.”

Xfinity Home Security offers consumers the facility to create personalized settings that may do such things as provide real-time e-mail or text alerts when doors open or close or when motion detectors report activity occurring inside or outside of the house. Further, the service comes with a tablet-like touch screen with a menu of widgets that let access to the newest weather, news, traffic, and sports scores.

Besides 24/7 professional monitoring, Xfinity Home Security provides customers the facility to:

watch live streaming video in their home via video wireless video cameras;
access security controls remotely via an internet portal or the Xfinity Security app for the iPhone;
manage home utilities like digital thermostats and lights;
have more peace of mind since both battery and cellular backup helps ensure customers remain fully protected even inside the event of an influence outage;
access features from a number of Comcast’s existing services. To illustrate, an Xfinity Voice customer could take heed to a voicemail through an app at the security interface.
Today, Comcast is selling the Xfinity Home Security Preferred Package for as little as $39.95 per thirty days. Xfinity Home Security customers may also be eligible to receive as much as a 20 percent discount on their homeowners’ insurance. Visit www.xfinity.com/homesecurity for more info on pricing, equipment and extra features.

The service was first unveiled in Houston in mid 2010 and is now being rolled out in parts of Philadelphia, Portland, Jacksonville, Sarasota/Naples, Chattanooga and Nashville. Additional markets would be introduced on a rolling basis.

iControl Networks Powers Comcast’s XFINITY® Home Security Service

First Broadband Organization Introduces New National Service In accordance with iControl’s OpenHome™ Software Platform

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — iControl Networks, a pace-setter in broadband home management, today announced its OpenHome™ software platform is powering Comcast’s XFINITY Home Security service.

Comcast’s XFINITY Home Security service provides intrusion and fire protection as well as a number of interactive features including home monitoring, home management and effort management services, with the added benefits of web and mobile access.

“Comcast is the primary national broadband company to launch iControl’s software platform, bringing greater peace-of-mind to millions of householders who can now know that their homes and families are protected whether they’re home or away,” said Jim Johnson, co-CEO of iControl. “This can be a momentous day for iControl and we’re very excited to join Comcast’s initiative.”

XFINITY includes an interactive, easy-to-use touch screen security panel that have been certified to fulfill UL standards for dual-mode broadband and cellular connectivity to the Central Monitoring Station. Other features and kit include extended battery backup, video monitoring, lighting control, custom text and email alerts, 24/7 monitoring, thermostat control and remote arm/disarm.

“Consumers have responded enthusiastically to early market deployments of XFINITY Home Security service,” said Mitch Bowling, Senior Vice chairman and General Manager of latest Businesses for Comcast. “We’re thrilled to be adding another value-added service to the XFINITY bundle and we’re confident that this next generation solution might be of serious interest to our customers.”

About iControl Networks

iControl Networks is a venture-backed software and services company providing interactive solutions defining the broadband home management market. The iControl OpenHome™ Software Platform, an award-winning software solution that has made the Connected Home a reality, enables home security companies, broadband service providers and utilities to give the subsequent generation of home management, security and connectivity to their customers. Investors in iControl include ADT, Charles River Ventures, Cisco, Comcast Interactive Capital, GE Security, Intel Capital and the Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers iFund. For more info, visit www.icontrol.com.

About Comcast Corporation

Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (www.comcast.com) is without doubt one of the nation’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communications services. Comcast is mainly thinking about the operation of cable systems through Comcast Cable and inside the development, production and distribution of entertainment, news, sports and other content for global audiences through NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is without doubt one of the nation’s largest video, high-speed Internet and get in touch with providers to residential and business customers. Comcast is almost all owner and manager of NBCUniversal, which owns and operates entertainment and news cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, local television station groups, television production operations, a tremendous movie company and theme parks.

SOURCE iControl Networks