Security Sales & Integration

September2013

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Industry Pulse IN DEPTH VIVINT JOINS HOME BUILDER TO MARKET TOMORROW'S SMART HOME energy analytics. HomeHERRIMAN, Utah — Te owners will be able to future of the truly intetrack how much energy the grated home celebrated a house is generating and ribbon-cutting here recentconsuming from the panel ly in this small community and their mobile devices. located among rolling hills Among its connected and a mountainous backfeature sets are automated drop near Salt Lake City. door locks, a Z-Wave therLoaded with home automostat, Z-Wave modules mation, wireless security for small appliance and features, a photovoltaic syslighting control, and intetem and high-speed wiregrated video surveillance less broadband by Vivint, functionality. Also, the and forward-thinking included security system construction design and provides two-way commumaterials by local developer Vivint CEO Todd Pedersen (second from right) is joined by Garbett nication with emergency Garbett Homes, the threeHomes representatives, along with invited guests, for a ribbon-cutdispatch personnel. level model is billed as rep- ting ceremony to introduce the Net Zero home in Herriman, Utah. "A main diference is resenting the possibilities of we have added the Wi-Fi capability so an afordable, sustainable, feature-rich Vivint-Garbett home is the frst to be it can get onto your home broadband smart home. certifed as net zero in zone 5. network. It also runs its own secure In attendance for the media and Te home actually earned a neganetwork, so the cameras can be very home-unveiling event held in August tive-one rating on the House Energy easily and securely attached to the were local and state politicians, as well Rating System (HERS), which is the panel directly," explained Jeremy as Sam Rashkin, chief architect of the DOE's scoring system for measurWarren, Vivint's vice president of inBuilding Technologies Ofce at the U.S. ing residential energy performance. Department of Energy (DOE). Standard houses typically have a HERS novation. "If a homeowner changes their router, if they change their router Vivint and Garbett Homes have rating of 100. Rashkin added, as the password, there is no disruption." coined the residence a Net Zero home nation strives for energy independence While Vivint and Garbett Homes are for its ability to produce renewable the savings from sustainable homes collaborating to build hundreds more energy equal to the amount it conwould be equivalent to eliminating 80 of these sustainable residences in Utah, sumes; meaning, all or the majority of million barrels of oil imports per year. Vivint CEO Todd Pedersen tells SSI the homeowner's utility costs would be "Tis event is so important to me he envisions replicating the Net Zero ofset each month. because this is a message that people home across the nation and beyond. "Once we transform the [housing] don't understand about zero energy "You will never see us do something market to this level of excellence, we homes," he said. "Tis is where we are that is cool for just one neighborhood reduce the U.S. homeowners' utility going to be, for sure, in the future. Te or one house. We did this on purpose to bill by $250 billion. Second, we create rest of the industry will have to fgure do it for millions of homes. Period. I'm almost [the equivalent of a cumulative] out how to catch up to where we are not going to waste my time," he said. 2.5 million job-years of work," Rashkin heading now." "I'm not going to do a project that is a told attendees. Vivint provided solar panels to the one-of. Tis is intended to be nationTe performance of the Net Zero project that generate 10 kilowatts of wide, North America-wide and eventuhome has been independently certielectrical power for the home's needs, fed under the International Energy as well as a charging station for an elec- ally a worldwide concept. Period." Conservation Code (IECC), which establishes minimum design and construction requirements for energy efciency. Te IECC divides the United States into eight climate zones; Utah and numerous other states that experience hot summers and cold winters are classifed as Climate Zone 5. Te tric vehicle. Te company's latest home automation technology is being beta tested in the fve-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom residence (and other sites) prior to being marketed commercially in 2014. It is anchored by a Wi-Fi-enabled control panel outftted with a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen and real-time SSI's November issue, which will be devoted to the residential market, will report on the home of the future and security's place in it, plus an inside look at Vivint's innovation center. SEPTEMBER 2013 / SECURITYSALES.COM / 17

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