AT&T's Connected Life monitoring system now integrates with Gemini for Home. The company calls it the "first" home security product to integrate with Google Home Premium, and that is the real story: Gemini becomes the interface through which a third-party security provider attaches its cameras to a model.
What the features do
- Event descriptions: instead of a "motion detected" notification, Gemini describes what happened — who delivered a package and how many items they dropped off. - Natural-language search of recordings: questions like "What dug up the yard last night?" or "Who let the dogs out?" search the video history. - Daily summaries: an overview of activity in and around the home. - Automatic arm/disarm based on how close the resident is to the house.
All of it is available only on the professionally monitored Connected Life plan at $29.99 a month.
Why this is more than a feature update
Connected Life launched in December 2025 together with Google and Abode. The new features run on Google's Gemini-powered Home APIs, which exist so that smart home brands and developers can build exactly this kind of AI feature into their devices. ADT has hinted at something similar.
What shifts is the role of the monitoring centre. Home security has been a human staring at a wall of alarms, plus a call to the police. The new interface replaces triage with a query: stop reviewing every event, start asking for the ones that matter.
The questions left open
Monitored security is a business where false alarms cost money — and in the US, whether anyone shows up at all hangs on them. A model that summarises and characterises events becomes part of a decision chain that used to be staffed by people. Whether, and how, those summaries feed into a monitoring centre's dispatch decisions is not stated in the announcement.
The second issue is the footage itself. Making your recordings searchable in plain language means having them indexed. Neither Google nor AT&T has published where that processing happens, how long indexes and clips are retained, who can query them — or whether such an index could be demanded in a criminal case or by subpoena. These are not hypothetical questions: home cameras are among the most frequent sources in investigations, and a machine-readable index of everything that happened in the yard is a different object from a hard drive full of video files.
The context
Google retired Assistant on phones in September 2026, with Gemini taking over for good; the Gemini app passed a billion monthly users this year. Moving into the monitored home is the logical next step — and the first case where a language model is not offering recommendations but operating a security system.
