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MyLiveGuard Ltd has concluded an agreement under which Y3K Ltd is to licence the MyLiveGuard software platform to power a new line of residential-focused, combined Home Automation, Home Security and Home CCTV packages which it will put together and distribute through its existing Retail and Installer networks under its SMART-i HOME banner.

Licencing MyLiveGuards technology will enable Y3K to enter the burgeoning Home Automation market and quickly capitalise on the trend towards convergence of Home Automation and Home Security solutions.

Showcasing the new SMART-i HOME product on its stand at IFSEC 2014, Paul Singh, Y3Ks CEO said This is a logical step for us. Using MyLiveGuards cloud software platform we can build our own product offering, extend our existing portfolio of CCTV-orientated products and offer homeowners new lifestyle services focused around their smartphones which enable them to protect and control their homes and possessions in an affordable way.

Furthermore, Singh added, its clear that while converging technology is attracting new customers and increasing the number of homeowners who self monitor, all the evidence suggests that the professionally monitored market remains a much larger market. By leveraging MyLiveGuards technology and integrating SMART-i HOME to our new SmartGuard Monitoring Station we will offer homeowners both options and give them the best of both worlds.

The SMART-i HOME system uses wireless sensors to detect intrusion, smoke, flood and other "events" and makes a voice call to the absent homeowner to alert them and enable them to remotely view video footage of the event. Home owners can also use their smartphones to access live CCTV feeds as well as remotely control lights, heating controls door locks, cat flaps, curtains and much more on a manual or scheduled basis to simulate occupancy when away from home, prepare their property for their return home and manage energy more efficiently.

Were delighted to be working with Paul and his team, said Mark Naldrett, MyLiveGuards Sales Director. We believe that in Y3K, with their experience, reputation for innovation and sales track record, we have found the ideal partner to spearhead sales of our Z-Wave based Home Automation technology through UK Retail distribution channels.

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After growing up in a reality show himself, new dad Jack Osbourne might feel completely comfortable in his new traditional home in Studio City.As TMZ pointed out, the homes high-tech security system has 16 high-resolution cameras inside and outside.

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One of the seven bathrooms in Jack Osbourne's new Studio City home.

Property records confirm that Osbourne and his wife, Lisa, paid $3.2 million for the brand new home, moving their family of three to a gated community afterselling in Los Feliz earlier this year.

The Cape Cod-style five-bedroom, seven-bath is definitely a family home, with a big, private backyard that has a pool and outdoor kitchen. The home has lots of high-end features: a wine room, chandeliers, high-end appliances, marble counters, fireplaces and a master bathroom with a giant shower, seating area, stand-alone tub and a steam unit.

The beige-and-white house lacks the personality of the couples previous Spanish-style home, but the 5,614-square-foot space is a step up in size and luxury.

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The home has a large, private backyard with a pool and outdoor kitchen.

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Imagine a dishwasher that requires a username and password. Smart homes will require unprecedented effort to ensure not just security but also usability.

The battle between Google and Apple is moving from smart phones to smart things, with both companies vying to provide the underlying architecture that networks your appliances, utilities, and entertainment equipment. Earlier in June, at its annual developer conference, Apple announced HomeKit, a new software framework for communications between home devices and Apples devices. Meanwhile, Nest, a maker of smart thermostats and smoke alarms that was bought by Google earlier this year for $3.2 billion, recently launched a similar endeavor with software that lets developers build apps for its products and those from several other companies.

Indeed, a quick look at the Works with Nest website reveals just how interconnected our future is about to become, with smart cars telling our smart thermostats when well be home, smart dryers keeping our clothes fresh and wrinkle-free until we arrive, and household lights that flash red when the Nest detector senses smoke or carbon monoxide.

In fact, though, many of us are already living amongst an Internet of (some) things. We have desktops, laptops, cell phones, streaming devices like Apple TV and Roku boxes, and even smart televisions. Its just that these systems have barely begun to work together properly, and therein lies the problem.

The visions of Google and Apple will require a lot more than new frameworks and developer conferences to be truly transformative. They will require heretofore-unseen levels of reliability, security, and usability. Otherwise were in for a frustrating and possibly dangerous networked future.

Wi-Fi is a key enabler of the networked home. But while Wi-Fi is now present in more than 61 percent of U.S. households, many homes have incomplete coverage, and when Wi-Fi doesnt work, debugging is difficult. It will need to be dramatically more reliable than today to support the networked future.

Broadband Internet will need to be more reliable as wellas reliable as electric service is today. For many this may mean cable modems that can fall back to some kind of wireless 4G service, perhaps from a different provider.These modems will need to be dramatically easier to install and maintain than todays.

We will also need improved debugging systems for when the Internet doesnt work as it should. Today the primary recourse when your Internet is down is to reboot the cable modem, the laptop, or the smart TVor even all three! And perhaps the problem wasnt even in the house. To legitimately be considered smart, smart devices must assess whats wrong with the connection, and then help fix it.

Connecting anything to a secure home Wi-Fi network is a challenge for many. And some devices need additional authentication information, such as an Apple or Google username and password. When passwords change, the smart objects need to get the new passwords, or they cease to work.

This approach of binding our smart devices to our personal accounts may be an easy engineering decision today, but it will make less sense as more devices show up in households with multiple family members. Families shouldnt be forced to decide if the dishwasher is bound to Moms Gmail account or Dads. Instead, the household should have its own identity, with different family members having different levels of access depending on their needs.

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30th June, 2014

KUALA LUMPUR: The move by the Home Ministry to make it compulsory for individuals applying for a job as security guards to have their identity cards (ICs) confirmed with the National Registration Department (NRD) effective September 1 is seen as enhancing public confidence on the service provided.

This is because the effort to improve security clearance management can address public ire on the occurrence of crimes involving security guards such as several cases that have happened previously.

Security Services Association of Malaysia president Datuk Shaheen Mirza Habib said the robbery incident in Subang Jaya last year involving a security guard who was found to have used a false IC, has become a lesson among many security firms.

In the Oct 23, 2013 a woman bank officer was shot dead in the head by the banks own security guard before fleeing with cash from the safety vault.

The new regulation will enhance the aspect of security in our industry, which really must stress on the security factor, he told Bernama yesterday.

The move was announced by Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi yesterday to ensure all security guards were Malaysians and possessed valid ICs and, therefore, curb the use of false ICs by security guards.

Touching on security firms that recruited foreign workers besides Nepalese, Shaheen said the high demand was more on irresponsible firms that took advantage of foreigners who were not permitted to work as security guards.

We only have 30,000 Nepalese security guards. Demands (for them) are high resulting in some firms to be greedy and wanted to get workers as soon as possible and recruiting foreign workers illegally without the relevant process with the ministry, he said.

For the cash-in-transit and banking sector, he said, only locals were allowed to work while Nepalese nationals were permitted to work at private companies on a three-year contract.

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