Vivint Smart Home CEO Todd Pedersen: Welcome to Vivint.
Our three-fold mission is to protect families, increase energy efficiency, and to simplify lives.
I was sleeping here in my recliner in this corner.
There were glass windows on either side of me there.
If I hadn’t woke up and was still in my chair, I would have gone with the car, I guess.
I was sitting in my recliner, reading the newspaper, and had fallen asleep when the beeping started and woke me up.
I could hear that it was my alarm system that was beeping.
So I went to the panel and it said Tornado Alert: take cover immediately.
Otherwise I would not have known there was a tornado seen it coming.
So I went to the closet
and I grabbed this chair and put it in the closet, and a pillow off the bed
I could hear the crashing on one side
Then the next thing I knew, it was right in front of me and banging on my door.
The next thing it would be on the backside.
There was one first responder that heard me
and said, "Get back, I'll knock the door down."
So that’s what he did and I had to climb over the rubble to get out.
My plan now is to rebuild on the same spot.
And I definitely will make sure that I have a Vivint Security System.
I really believe that it saved my life.
I’m thankful to be here right now.
Our home will be one of Dorchester’s first LEED platinum homes.
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
Vivint not only complements the systems in our home, but enhances them.
We wanted to build a home that was efficient, that was healthy, and was truly green.
So going green doesn't mean you need to wear shoes made out of leaves or start putting together clothing.
It's being environmentally aware and relying on simplicity.
And Vivint helps us with both of those things.
We have a lot of efficient systems in our home. We
We have a solar PV system, a solar hot water system, rainwater harvesting
and with all of these systems making our home extremely efficient we wanted a way to manage it all.
We did our research. We wanted to include home automation, and we found Vivint.
Being able to monitor our energy. Being able to control the thermostat, the lights, the locks–
allows us to have control over our home.
It really makes our life simple.
I like to show off. So all of my coworkers and friends, I like to show them Vivint.
I would love everyone to have Vivint because it’s simple, affordable, and really cool.
What we’ve learned from this project is that there are a lot of simple technologies out there
and if people were juts more aware of them and knew about them, they would want them.
Vivint has really shown us what’s possible and we want to showcase that to everyone else.
Two weeks ago, my nanny was in the backyard and my mom was at the front door.
She was ringing the doorbell and couldn’t get in.
Eventually, after 10 minutes, she called me and said hey, I’m here at your house and I can't get in. Where's your nanny?
I said, well I suppose they must be at the back of the house.
They surely didn't leave the house because if they left the house, I would have gotten an email.
I said hold on one second. I got out my phone and opened the lock for her and she entered the house.
Lo and behold, they were in the backyard playing.
I used to leave my garage door open so many times by mistake. Now that problem doesn't exist.
Every night I know that the garage is closed because it says Main Garage Door closed.
It’s comforting to know that I’m secured by that invisible security blanket.
Sometimes we are out, and our help is at home with the kids and they're in the playroom where we have a camera.
Sometimes you get that sense of wanting to know what's going on with your kids.
And you just head on your phone and you can find out.
It's not just the alarm system, it’s the whole security, home automation which really works. It works perfectly.