Vivint Smart Home Launches Vivint Car Guard to Extend Smart Security to Your Car

Vivint Smart Home Launches Vivint Car Guard to Extend Smart Security to Your Car

Vivint combines home and car security into a single app experience

PROVO, Utah – March 20, 2019 – Vivint Smart Home, a leading smart home company, today introduced Vivint Car Guard, a first-of-its-kind service that allows homeowners to manage the security of both their home and car with a single app. Vivint Car Guard provides peace of mind with the ability to monitor the security, location and diagnostics of your car from anywhere.

Integrated into the Vivint Smart Home app, Vivint Car Guard will send notifications if your car is bumped, towed or stolen. Many households regularly park at least one car outside the garage, but cars parked in driveways, parking lots or on the street are vulnerable, even if equipped with car alarms. In the U.S., thieves steal a car every 41 seconds, resulting in nearly 800,000 stolen vehicles per year.

With a connected home and car, you can customize your Vivint smart home to turn on lights and record video using outdoor cameras if anyone disturbs the vehicle in your driveway. Vivint Car Guard can also trigger your smart home to turn on/off lights, lock up, close the garage door and arm your system when you drive away.

“Consumers want to protect their two most valuable assets – their home and their car,” said Jeff Lyman, chief product officer at Vivint Smart Home. “Connecting the car and home unlocks enhanced protection and convenience that weren’t possible before.”

The Vivint Car Guard device is easy to install into the standard onboard diagnostics port (OBD-II) under the dashboard of most cars. Vivint Car Guard is powered by Mojio, the leading platform and SaaS solution provider for connected cars.

In addition to monitoring the security of your car, Vivint Car Guard helps you locate your car or loved ones with GPS tracking of your car’s location and travel direction. You can create geofences around important places, such as your home, office or school, and receive notifications when your car enters or leaves these areas.

Vivint Car Guard also monitors your car’s health and safety, providing reminders for regular maintenance, as well as notifications about mechanical problems and recall information. Parents and guardians can help keep new drivers safe with smart driving analytics, including trip history, hard stops and rapid accelerations.

IoT Breakthrough recently named Vivint Car Guard its “Connected Car OBD-II Solution of the Year” for 2019. An independent organization that recognizes leaders in the global Internet of Things market, IoT Breakthrough selected winners from more than 3,500 nominations across multiple categories.

Pricing
You can purchase Vivint Car Guard along with a Vivint smart home system for integrated home and car security, or separately as a standalone service. Pricing starts at $199 for the Vivint Car Guard device and $9.99/month for service.

For more information about Vivint Car Guard, visit https://www.vivint.com/car-guard.

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About Vivint Smart Home

Vivint Smart Home is a leading smart home company in North America. Vivint delivers an integrated smart home system with in-home consultation, professional installation and support delivered by its Smart Home Pros, as well as 24/7 customer care and monitoring. Dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services, Vivint serves more than 1.4 million customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit www.vivint.com.

About Mojio

Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the cloud platform and SaaS provider of choice for automakers and mobile network operators looking to build profitable connected car services. Mojio’s platform solutions and mobile apps deliver a smarter, safer and more convenient car ownership experience for the global driving community. With real-world data gathered from more than 7 billion miles of driving, Mojio provides a big data analytics framework that uses machine learning to generate actionable insights, unlocking the next generation of revenue streams for companies throughout the automotive value chain.

Founded in 2012, Mojio has growing teams in Silicon Valley and Vancouver, and has some of the world’s biggest brands as customers, investors and partners, including Amazon, Assurant, Bosch, Deutsche Telekom, Microsoft, SAP and T-Mobile. Mojio is a career-accelerator for driven tech professionals looking to shape the future of mobility. To learn more about joining our team please visit Mojio’s careers page.