When AT&T first launched its Digital Life smart home system in 2012, it made the odd decision to unveil it in Barcelona, Spain, not on American soil. AT&T always had ambitions of making Digital Life a global phenomenon, licensing it to other carriers outside of the U.S. It looks like the first of those international carriers has taken an interest.
Multinational carrier Telefónica will deploy Digital Life home automation, security and energy management services in a limited trial in Europe, AT&T announced this week at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas. Telefonica isn’t just taking gadgetry – which encompasses alarms, motion detectors, locks, thermostats, water meters and cameras — it’s licensing Digital Life’s web portal and mobile app framework for customers to manage the service. The smart homes in Europe might start looking a lot like the smart homes in Georgia.
AT&T also revealed a new component to Digital Life targeted at seniors. Called Digital Life Care, the program is designed to keep seniors who would normally need in-home assistants independent through monitoring and automation technologies, though AT&T was short on the details of what those exact technologies would be. Employee trials of Digital Life Care are starting this year, and AT&T said it would launch the service commercially next year.


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