Sounds Good: New Program Designed to Open Connected Homes to Telecoms

A new program for integrating sound-sensitive smart sensors into M2M systems has hit the market in the U.K. from Audio Analytic, a Cambridge, England-based intelligent audio provider, designed to help telecoms operators address the growing connected home market.

The Global Telecom Partner Program (GTPP), launched March 25, is made to ease the process of integrating sound sensing technology into any number of other connected home products, which can be deployed by telecom and other utilities vendors in connected homes and businesses. The audio sensors can be paired with home automation, monitoring and security products like cameras, microphones, thermostats, home hubs and baby monitors.

Berg Insight, a dedicated M2M/IoT market research firm based in Sweden, predicts that about 100 million homes in the Europe and the U.S. will install connected home systems by 2017, with the market expected to be worth up to $17 billion. The software is able to monitor the home environment for smoke alarms, breaking glass, baby cries, car alarms and gun shots.

“The connected home presents a huge opportunity for telecoms operators to build on their existing customer relationships and introduce new, innovative products that enable home automation, security and monitoring,” said Chris Mitchell, CEO, Audio Analytic. “It promises to unlock a combination of new revenues and provides the chance for operators to differentiate themselves in increasingly competitive markets.”

Sounds like it could be a sweet deal.