The $100 Intrusion System Korner Tested

Published Aug 18, 2015 04:00 AM

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Comments (3)
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Paresh Desai
Aug 20, 2015

Hey Brian,

I backed Korner in Kickstarter. It is an early product.

If it wasn't crowedsourced I doubt they would have shipped it this soon.

I think it will mature over time. I would adivce waiting til then for most people.

They did say there are lot of things needs to be fixed. It does have over the air upgrade capability.

One thing that annoys me is the sound from the stick. Everytime door/window is opened the thing emits loud sound. I have it in my home office. Everytime it goes off I jump!

Paresh

JS
Jason Spielfogel
Aug 20, 2015

Here's a question, do you think crowdsourcing companies like this represent a serious threat to residential security from the big players?

Though companies like Dropcam/Nestcam and Korner have a host of bugs right now, they also represent newer technology, that is easy to deploy, that has the potential to provide a reliable, high resolution sensor set to an owner's house that they can easily interact with using smart phones, PCs, etc.

It feels like to me that within 5-10 years, such companies will eliminate about 95% of the residential market for the big players in that space.

Thoughts?

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Brian Rhodes
Jun 28, 2018
IPVMU Certified

UPDATE: Korner Quits

I received this email today:

Customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded segment apparently was the biggest contributor: 

Despite the overwhelmingly positive response from our customers, it was surprisingly difficult (and expensive) to acquire new ones.

Given the system did not work well to begin with, it is somewhat surprisingly they lasted as long as they did.