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here at CES 2016 we've seen a lot of cool security stuff but Vivat is doing something a little bit different that's kind of exciting for this smart home and security space so they're actually a professional security firm so you pay a monthly fee you sign into a contract they install everything for you it's been around for years it's similar to ADT or a tease digital life as competitors but more and more security firms are integrating with DIY devices and that's really really exciting for us at CNET one of the things that's new here at CES 2016 our Vivint is integration with Amazon's echo that's the Alexa voice controlled device right here that actually can talk and control all of the different things in your home so there's a door lock they have connected lighting they have all kinds of things and you can ask Alexa to turn on your lights change my temperature to 72 degrees and it also integrates with the larger Vivint platform so you can actually use vivint's display panel and use Alexa to arm or disarm your security system and even pull up a live security feed of what the camera is seeing another thing viven has introduced here at CES 2016 is the ping camera so this is a little security camera with 1080p motion detection kind of your usual suspects of features but one thing that's really different is that it has a little button on the top it actually lets someone in the home two-way talk there instead of actually having it to have a mobile device or something else that's something we haven't really seen before in the connected camera space and it's something we're really excited to test at the CNN smart home