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The famous smart thermostats manufacturing company Ecobee, reportedly, is enhancing its expertise, and the next product from the company may be a home security camera. According to a few leaked camera pictures, first obtained by ZatzNotFunny, the company has been working on an indoor camera for quite some time now.

Looking at the leaked images, there is a black colour camera which is mounted over a silver colour cone-shaped stand. On the top, it has four lights, that flashes yellow or blue light. Reportedly, the camera from Ecobee might be the next home smart device.

Purportedly, the camera may have support for Amazon’s Alexa or perhaps it will be a standalone Alexa speaker. Noticeably, in 2018, Amazon invested a huge amount of money into Ecobee, that too from the Alexa funds and some of the older Ecobee products, including ecobee4 and Ecobee Switch+, also have got the support for a few Alexa features. So there are higher chances that this device will have some good Alexa features, too.

It is also expected that the camera may act as a sensor for the Ecobee thermostats as well as may include the room temp and humidity capabilities. Also like the other Ecobee products, including the ecobee3 lite and ecobee4 thermostat, may have the support for the HomeKit, depending upon if the new camera is wired or is powered by a battery. Since due to the more power drain, all the devices that support the HomeKit are wired. Many of the security camera manufacturers have already enabled the Homekit for its advanced features.

The company has been providing thermostat products enabled with Apple’s HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Microsoft’s Cortana support. And, by building an indoor camera, the company is trying to grow itself into other fields of home products, too. The company has not commented on the matter, and also, the launch date or the price of the product has not been revealed as yet.