ADT announces it has acquired Origin AI, bringing the company’s AI sensing platform and related intellectual property into the ADT ecosystem.
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.
Elevating traditional security
“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.
Reducing false alarms
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.
Intelligent home protection
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.
As previously announced, ADT will hold a live conference call and webcast at 10 a.m. ET on Monday, March 2, to discuss its fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results. During that time, management will share more information on this acquisition, its broader strategy and longer-term financial outlook. Participants may listen to a live webcast through the investor relations website. A replay of the webcast will be available on the website within 24 hours of the live event.