ADT has completed the acquisition of Origin AI, incorporating the company’s innovative AI sensing platform and associated intellectual property into its framework.
Origin AI’s cutting-edge technology enhances the ability of smart homes to interpret motion and human presence without relying on cameras, audio equipment, or wearable devices. The integration aims to introduce new safety features and customer use cases by providing a more comprehensive understanding of home occupancy, movement, and related activities.
Enhancing security with AI
Omar Khan, Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer at ADT, highlighted the significance of this acquisition, describing it as a pivotal step towards creating a safer and smarter home environment. Khan explained, “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 strategic acquisition includes over 200 early-priority global patents, which form a vital intelligence layer intended for powering the next generation of security and smart home innovations, such as solutions for aging residents to stay in their homes longer.
Minimising false alarms
Additionally, this sensing capability supports more efficient home automation and personalisation
With the incorporation of real-time presence and activity analysis within the home, this AI technology brings essential context, aiming to reduce false alarms and enhance compliance with municipal regulations, while improving coordination with emergency responders. Additionally, this sensing capability supports more efficient home automation and personalisation, facilitating applications like occupancy-based comfort adjustments and health-focused solutions for aging-in-place scenarios.
Spencer Maid, President and CEO of Origin AI, expressed enthusiasm for the merger, stating, “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.”
Future of home protection
Through this partnership, ADT and Origin AI are laying the groundwork for a new era in intelligent home protection, aiming to evolve from reactive alerts to real-time situational understanding within homes, thus improving accuracy, safety, and customer privacy. Plans are underway to introduce new offerings incorporating Origin's AI technology into the ADT ecosystem by 2027, with the acquisition valued at $170 million in cash, subject to customary price adjustments.
ADT will provide further insights into this acquisition during a live conference call and webcast scheduled for 10 a.m. ET on Monday, March 2, alongside a discussion of the company’s financial results for the end of 2025. Interested parties can access the live webcast through the investor relations website, with a replay available within 24 hours of the event.
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.
