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Welcome to this, the 71st episode of the Apple Insider Podcast.

I'm your host Victor Marks and joining me today is Jason Johnson, who is the CEO of August. Now August makes a

doorbell camera, a smart keypad, and a smart lock. And the smart lock is now

Home Kit compatible.

So Jason, why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself

and about August?

Well, Victor, thanks for having me on.

So, yeah, so I'm the CEO and co-founder

of August Home, August.com is our address and my co-founder is Eve

Bahar, a well-known product designer and he and I started the company about three

years ago with a with a goal to change the way people access

the home, people as well as goods and services and we can talk about that a little later.

But we have four products now on the market and are really having a great time

changing the way that we get into our homes.

Cool. Now, tell me, I mean this sort of fits under the heading of Internet of

things and we used to call it connected home and before that we called it home

automation so so just tell our listeners a little bit about this space and

and what's going on in this space that they

should know about it. Yeah so the Internet of Things is a term in fact a friend of

mine came up with a number of years ago and he was really referring to the idea of adding intelligence and connectivity to everyday objects.

And at the time they were really focused on adding sensors, tags to consumer packaged goods, being able to track packages as they move through

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