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Thieves beware: the lights are listening

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BeOn Home is a lighting system that includes three intelligent LED bulbs that are supposed to help out both when you’re home and when you’re not.

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  1. Nice but very pricey by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 1

    $100+/bulb is VERY pricey. (Lots of LED bulbs already have TI radio/processor chips - usually the otherwise-identical ones with zigbee rather than BLE - for substantially less.

    Adding a battery and related circuitry to do operate-over-power-failure is nice but not that much of a cost. Adding a speaker/microphone, a suitable processor to drive it, and some network and security software, may justify a substantial boost. But software amortizes to "almost free" over large numbers of units. So it seems to me the price point is too high. I expect this will die from competition.

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