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what would it look like if your carrier controlled not just your cell phone but in fact your entire home I'm Jessica Bell court for CNN here at CTA 2012 in the lovely Garden District of New Orleans where AT&T has set up a concept connected home that would control everything from your security to your appliances let's take a look so here we are inside the house where me and talk about some of the security features there are a couple things that happen first there are these physical sensors that are going to go on the windows on the doors they're going to look a lot like this they're very sensitive when you move them two things happen first there's a physical response inside the house whatever you program the lights to go on you're going to program the strobing light to go on program the TV to Blair or the radio to Blair and that will let whoever tampers with your home know that you know that they're there the second thing that happens is that AT&T is monitoring so they'll get an alert that something has happened to your house they'll call the numbers on there they'll send out a responder a dispatcher there is of course an application component as well for tablets and smartphones on the application you can see any security cameras you have there are two in this house you can tap on the security image to change the angle of the camera and press refresh to watch in real life there are also a lot of other things you can do in this sitting room there are also controls for the thermostat for lights so from here you can actually set the thermostat heat it up pull it out and let it go so now we're in the study and we're going to look at programs which is another thing that you can set up here so you can manually control the lights you can control the TV pretty much anything with an on and off switch even a dimmer you can also set a program so by pressing the program like if you're going to go on vacation or something by pressing the program you can also control the radio here the fireplace over here and the lighting system all at once by pressing one button so here's how you do it it's as simple as in this room for the study we've got a program already set up and it's sort of like well you know you're coming in you've got the music on and you want to create a nice cozy atmosphere so you can relax with a book and the fireplace so you definitely don't want the music you don't want the lights and you want the fireplace on simply going to press your program button to run now it is going to take a little while for everything to happen but as you can see we just have a live fire place so now this room is ready for some cozy reading so this was your brief tour of a TNT's digital life connected home for security and appliances now the service will start in trial this summer in Atlanta and Dallas until then we won't know anything else about pricing or availability I'm Jessica doll court for CNN you can catch all the other news from ctia at cnet com