ADT has acquired Origin AI, bringing the company’s AI sensing platform and related intellectual property into the ADT ecosystem, and allowing the company to advance proactive, intelligence-driven home protection and broaden smart home use cases.
Origin AI’s sensing technology enables the home to better understand the classification of motion and human detection without cameras, audio or wearable devices. Once integrated into ADT’s platform, these capabilities are expected to enable new customer use cases and safety enhancements by providing deeper understanding of presence, occupancy, motion and related activity within the home.
“This acquisition represents a major step forward in our vision to deliver a safer, smarter home that understands context, recognises risk and provides peace of mind, all while protecting customer privacy,” said Omar Khan, ADT Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer. “By integrating AI sensing into the home, we plan to add a new intelligence layer, elevating traditional security and smart home capabilities by allowing ADT to verify human presence, classify and analyse motion, and add context to alarm events and other conditions within the home.”
The acquisition of Origin AI includes a rich portfolio of more than 200 early‑priority global patents, providing a core intelligence layer designed to power future security and smart home capabilities, including applications supporting aging in place.
By adding real-time understanding of presence and activity within the home and analysing any anomalies, this technology adds critical context with the potential to reduce false alarms, improve municipal compliance and enhance coordination with first responders. AI sensing also enables smarter automation and personalisation across the connected home, with potential applications that include occupancy-based comfort settings and aging-in-place and health solutions.
“Joining ADT allows our AI platform to scale across millions of homes, combining enhanced situational awareness with unmatched monitoring expertise. Together, we will move the industry to continuous, meaningful home awareness,” said Spencer Maid, President and CEO of Origin AI.
ADT and Origin AI are building a foundation for the next phase of intelligent home protection, to transform reactive alerts to real-time understanding of what’s happening inside the home, improving accuracy, safety and customer privacy. ADT expects to begin commercialising new offerings that incorporate Origin’s AI sensing technology into the ADT ecosystem in 2027. The purchase price for the transaction was $170 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.
