Is Verizon planning a Z-Wave home automation system?
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Mar 20th 2009 7:01PM
posted Mar 20th 2009 7:01PM
As home automation starts building up steam it looks like Verizon might be giving Nokia's to-be-released Home Control Center a little run for its money. According to CE Pro, FCC documentation has been found describing something called the Verizon Home Monitoring Gateway and Home Monitor Service. Apparently based on technology from 4Home, the Z-Wave compliant system uses a Westell-branded Control Point gateway featuring Internet connectivity and automation capabilities. The site also describes widgets for controlling surveillance cameras and various room modes, such as "Home," "Away" or "Movie Time!" Devices can be accessed and functions scheduled either through a web browser or directly from Verizon mobile phones equipped with a "4Home" button. Neither Verizon nor 4Home have yet commented on any of this, but we're keeping our eyes peeled.
Awesome. Now people will be able to hack my house.
only if u can afford it. (can u??)
Control4 Here!
Awesome stuff, I love home Automation.
ive always imagined something like i walk in with my friends and a nice female voice would ask, what do you want to do today mayank, i see you have friends over. and id be like, we're watching a movie. and then she would chose the best movie based on auto decting everyone's age, gender, mood, blood pressure, etc... and the whole house would go on dim lights, and the 100" wall would turn into a tv and start showing the movie while the house tells me that its getting the popcorn ready in a second.
i guess a lot of that if from Microsoft 2008 CES presentation where they had the whole microsoft home.
I might be willing to enter the Matrix for this very purpose
With Verizon's history of not respecting user's privacy (warranltess taps). I wouldn't trust them having access to my security cameras.
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srry fr that.
it was'nt me.
It'd be even cooler to see a Z-Pinch (powered) home automation system.. Maybe in a few decades
Yay, hack my house!
Does look/sound awesome though.
A guy from my church has the 4home system setup at his house and it was impressive!
Religion?
"Religion?"
It's comments like that that make me wonder.
No seriously, I have no clue what you were getting at.
yea that's all i need is Verizon flashing my lights at 4:00 am whenever i am late on a bill. NO THANKS.
I'll just build my own
"Movie time"? I do believe it is "We've got movie sign!"