While CNET has historically tested plenty of smart home security devices - and even DIY security systems - our coverage of professionally installed home security systems has been a little sparser. Despite the system performing adequately, its poor user experience, clunky design and high prices make it one of the least enticing professional home security systems on the market.ĪDT is a classic home security brand, but it faces an evolving and ever-modernizing marketplace.īefore diving into our ADT review, a little context might be helpful. This means existing ADT costumers now have the option of controlling their security systems with Google Assistant through voice and touch control using a Nest Mini, Nest Hub or Nest Hub Max.īut even with those updates, ADT probably isn't worth its steep price. And in April 2021, ADT began installing and selling Nest products. In 2020, ADT started integrating with Google Nest home automation devices, including its smart cams and Google Assistant-equipped Nest Hub smart displays. The company is working to rise to the occasion. Thanks to direct competitors like Comcast Xfinity and Vivint, along with a host of DIY home security systems including innovative contenders like the Ring Alarm Pro, traditional contract-based services like ADT are becoming relics of a past era. But ADT faces an evolving and ever-modernizing marketplace. It's been around in one form or another for close to 150 years, and it remains one of the most recognizable brands on the market - if not the most. ADT is the granddaddy of all home security companies.

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