This security startup switched gears to broaden its market – Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis
This week at the CEDIA Expo, many big-name companies in the home automation space will show off giant televisions, voice-integrated smart devices, and a huge variety of security systems. Also there will be Cognitive Systems, a company that last year arrived at the show with a brand new alarm system, dubbed “Aura,” that used Wi-Fi signals to determine what was going on in the home.
The Aura system was innovative in that it monitored the disruption in Wi-Fi signals around a home to determine motion and track how people moved throughout the house. It was less intrusive than video in some respects (no high-resolution pictures of you naked are shared with the cloud) but in other ways, more intrusive (the camera could “see” behind closed doors.)