The company previously recorded video only when homeowners streamed video from the doorbell to their smartphone.
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SkyBell currently offers free Cloud-based recording service, which begins automatically when the SkyBell HD rings or senses motion.
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The price will be lower than the prices charged by existing professional monitoring services, Thomas said. New services are also in the works for this year, including a fee-based active monitoring service with ability to notify police of intruders. Facial recognition is also planned late this year, but not to automatically unlock doors, he said without going into detail. In its product roadmap, the company plans before the end of the year to add “other industrial designs for inside and outside the home and have them work together with SkyBell HD,” Thomas said without disclosing details.
The company offers the SkyBell 2.0 through, Amazon and Best Buy’s brick-and-mortar stores. In distribution, SkyBell is about to expand sales of SkyBell HD beyond the company’s website to undisclosed retailers in the coming weeks. The company is already working with Comcast to integrate the device into Comcast’s Xfinity Home smart-home services. In another shift, the company has begun targeting security-service providers to integrate the SkyBell HD into their systems “to plug their platforms’ gap at the front door,” Thomas said. The previous-generation SkyBell 2.0, now at $149, lacks integration capabilities. Integration with a lock company’s products is also in the works, Thomas said. The IFTTT solution links home-automation products that don’t integrate directly via existing wireless home-automation standards. The company recently integrated its new $199 Skybell HD with Nest’s thermostat, smoke/carbon-monoxide sensor, and Wi-Fi camera with Amazon’s Echo and with ’s Cloud-based integration solution. The 2.5-year-old company plans to expand its product selection beyond video doorbells, add new services, target new distribution channels, and integrate directly with more home-automation products, co-founder Andrew Thomas told TWICE. SkyBell, the Wi-Fi video doorbell maker, is trying some new things.