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well you have all this cool stuff in your house but how do you make sure that you know it doesn't burn down or that nobody steals it all from you so this man doesn't answer that question Adam say gar the founder and CEO of canary so tell me what is what is canary so canary is the easiest way to connect to a physical place and do security and have security at home whether you're homeowner you're a renter you just want to have information live video recorded information on what's going on in your physical environment so what does security mean like what are you what are you telling me so this is this is canary this is the thing this what is this what is this telling so security is really about two things is about information and communication and right now the security systems that are out there aren't really good at either of those things and and so we were devising with the easiest way to both pull information so canary is jam-packed with sensors video audio temperature humidity air quality a cell rahmanir and more and it's designed to constantly stream that data to the cloud where we analyze it look at pattern detection and we geo look at your cell phone know if you're home or not we're really trying to find the easiest way to know if everything's ok in your environment and if it's not send all that information directly to you at your mobile phone notify you so you can take action immediately Anand so you'll tell me things like you know somebody opened my front door on my sites unless it's me which you can tell by my phone or you know there's carbon monoxide or I don't even know what else there's a fire somebody that's told your thing from you so it's you know you said some of the other systems out there are bad at the information and the communication is it just this is just that it hasn't been out there before like you mentioned before you you know this started you sort of went into Home Depot and there just wasn't anything it's like what's what's been out there what's it yeah so security today is really about they are the big installers like ADT's in the world and there's some new entrants to the field like AT&T and Comcast and then there are the DIY and they're a bunch of those and some new ones which are great but the to both the DIY and the installers have one thing in common in that they're both very complicated right there sensors all around they're expensive generally and for a renter like myself they're just terrible I mean so I'm not I'm not going to put sensors all around my home to do security and so most people don't have any security so 90 million homes in the US have nothing no connectivity no security even if their house or apartment burnt down and they are away from it they won't know about it right which to us is way crazy because it burns down you're like well I was just renting it any absolutely true yes but you don't want to lose your stuff right but so you have all these tools and then you have sort of a communications back-end to the whole system - exactly so we we've both created the easiest way to connect because canary you literally you buy it on boxes put it on your table we have a 30 second set of process and then you're done you have home security the device itself constantly is sending data to the cloud and you can access it whenever you want it's user option if they want to store that data or not we're analyzing it always to know well if it's normal for on Tuesday 3:00 p.m. for someone to come in your house and have activities whether it's a babysitter or a someone cleaning your house or fan of yours at visits or is it normal if you have a dog or cat in the home we're gonna learn that over the first few weeks you you own the device and get better at sending you informed alerts so if we know you have a dog and the dog walks in front of the device we're not going to alert you we're gonna alert you when something wrong happens somebody else's dog when so Nielsen died exact a really big dog yeah you have this little dog we're like what's this big dog yeah this is definitely problematic yeah so let me see I want to see the actual you made this you can take it apart yeah we can take take apart on purpose so we put it again it's and here's a one of our prototypes we have here basically the video infrared both night-vision and motion detection number of sensors both on the front and back boards this here is for our testing purposes and it will include a speaker a siren and others it's all in this really in this country it's like it's it's also an alarm - it's not just sending you the information but it's it's you absolutely it's also an alarm that that will go off at certain times or you can activate it yourself so if you see something's going on you can activate the siren from your phone I'm interested as a deterrent to get rid of some of those in your environment cool yeah and so it's like is it just knew that all of this stuff is so small that you can put it all in one sort of little package like this yeah well what we have today is we have ubiquitous wireless broadband in homes everyone has wireless connection you have the actual video technology is so amazing today even a couple years ago it was very different especially IP video third you have state data storage so to both stream and store data in the cloud a couple years ago was so expensive to do that no one was really doing it right and it was like there were old systems where there was like a video camera but it was like $49.99 a month to access a video that was in the closed room yeah and you have a lot of systems like they're like that's a day right it doesn't need to be like that yeah it doesn't need to be and so with with canary we're actually providing alerts backups you can use your friends and families backups you can have live video or both incidents that have happened all for free when you buy the device on the phone and so it's just it's complete GameChanger it's taking a model that's a few thousand dollars yeah like security or even DIY systems that will cost you thousands of dollars are complicated the average person won't set one of those up right we're getting rid of all that and we're saying you can simplify by having one device if you're in a larger environment larger home you get a more than one they all work together but most apartments would literally need just one device and right and then you can have security yeah where do you where do you put it like is there if I you know I have this like tiny little New York apartment should I put it somewhere where it's like facing the front door I guess it's sort of a different device depending yeah well yeah we tested this in about a hundred apartments in New York and other cities in the best place to put it is if you can see the front door in the living room or the main hallway at the same time what happens is in apartments if something goes wrong the likelihood that they'll pass by a central area of that apartment is over 95% so if if they're you know you'll see you don't need window sensors on you know your bathroom window like what how is that useful to know when someone's open your bathroom window you want to know what's going on in your environment you want to be able to see it immediately on your phone you'll be able to take action so I mean if it's nothing hey maybe it's some you know you're you're at work and you have a child as your child's first steps that you happen to capture and that's great I mean it allows you to be there to be present environment and in a very unobtrusive way cool and so there's there's apps to control all this yeah right can I can you show me the door how the apps work yeah so it's all of course prototypes now but all working prototypes so you have basic app which you can connect any time it's giving you immediately if there's an alert the immediate last alert so now that alert is like you know somebody opened the door or somebody you know they're fine yeah when there's not supposed to be there's a rapid rise in temperature totally so this was two minutes ago actually we have one this one to set up in our office so you can see my co-founders here here in the in the video you can get historical data or events coming from it so you can know what happened over time and this is all gonna get so much more personalized as as we continued to develop because we're launching now the product and the crowdfunding but the actual product will come out towards the end of the video next year and so the app and everything will be just so so much improved by that time and available in the iPhone we're planning for the Android as well cool and it's it'll there's their stuff of coming for the iPad too because that's kind of sitting just like be mr. security guard and just monitor my world exactly so our roadmap is iPhone then iPad Android and of course it'll be web enabled so you can access to the web at any time in that our plans get all through all that before launch and then and from there just keep developing cool and so where where do you you know you mentioned the app will be there better and different by the time it comes out what do you guys thinking about now cuz like once you put all the sensors in this thing and stick it on the table there's like a lot of stuff it can do right so what else you guys sort of well they what's really going into this and the heart and soul are the the computer vision and the algorithms we're developing for to learn about your behaviors and and those because it's all done in the cloud it'll keep getting smarter and smarter over time so even if you have the device day one it's getting smarter both by learning about you over the first few weeks to learn your patterns but it's also getting smarter because we're learning about everyone how people operate in general and so learning about the community and how people operate we can make our algorithm smarter to to know what's normal what's not and to be able to send you better and better alerts because eighty TVA DT or another security system their false alarm rate is 99% because they just go like oh crap the alarm went off we have no idea why but no idea why so like less than seven percent of people that have alarm systems actually a video in them so yeah if you're a DT alarm goes off what they're gonna call you you're not home what are you gonna do right I mean are you gonna send your neighbor are you gonna go home or you probably the son the police yeah the piece will drive by if they don't see anything suspicious outside then they'll leave I mean that's what they do so here's here's my question is do people care about security like they should yeah but do they like what have you you know done any research looked in all this stuff we've done research there there's public publicly available research that show a number of the surveys show that up to eighty five percent of people want some kind of security at homes absolutely horrific in fact what a new survey was just released showed that 40% of people wanted security video in their home it's such a new thing so few people have video in terms of security so it was great for us to see that but for all security is not just about you know keeping bad guys out rights about giving you information from your environment and that information might be you know learning about the air quality and the temperature and how it acts during the day it might be about making sure that someone you're looking after is comfortable so my father is in California can help look after his father who's 96 and lives in Florida it can be about looking after a child and making sure that the child is safe and their both their environment the the temperature the humidity in their environment and also you know if you have a babies that are like how they're doing appropriate things like checking on at work so safety and security for us is not just about one thing about putting sensors around right on the house it's about being more connected to that physical place in a very easy and an almost fun way and this is something you could you know convince your 96 year old grandfather actually plug in and absolutely butter my 96 rural grandfather is on Facebook and he could probably solve it somehow yeah your grandfather's on Facebook he was on Facebook before me that is totally I'm very impressed yes man yeah so this is coming out for crowdfunding this week this is coming out for crowdfunding and on IndieGoGo yeah and how much is it gonna cost skin exam it's gonna cost a b-tree 149 199 pending on how quickly people jump on there and is that so that the price you're going for for the retail yep the retail price would be $1.99 and as I said the apps free the basis service is free connectivity alerts everything backups and this kind of thing has never been done before and so we're what excites us the most is the ability to give people access and security that haven't had it like if you think about it people in the largest homes they're the ones that have security they're the ones that need the lease like large single-family homes are the ones that are least likely to be burgled least likely for there to be a problem least likely to have a fire lease like it for any problem because they can afford the best construction and the best equipment and the app security apartments which are specially rentals the most likely to have a problem and they're the ones that are least likely to have security and it's crazy for us I mean that's unfair so we want to democratize security make it available for anyone and just and say you know tell the big company is that their way of doing things is not needed their way of doing things doesn't work and this is a new approach cool and I don't have to you know convince my landlord to let me drill into the wall to make something I've seen nothing to install you take it you buy me a you put it on the table you can move it from room to room if you want or you can take it obviously take it with you if you move from one house to one apartment together yeah that's awesome well Adam thank you so much thanks so much for having me really appreciate ya I got a I got to get one of these and absolutely my parents have two cats and mortix just are constantly petrified that the you're dead because you know there might be and I was near old what do you probably are and yeah and so like this is you know it's peace of mind yeah I mean they could you know talking to New Yorkers probably more than anywhere else the first thing people think about other catch of the dog yeah and and what the ability to like wow I can see what's happening all day long just check in on them like you know brings pleasure to their lives so this you can do that maybe get like a like a live webcam totally your pet and just live video anytime you want exactly awesome all right well thank you so much thank you he's great a beer