Verizon Wireless 2011 Annual Report Download - page 14

Verizon’s Home
Monitoring and
Control service lets
customers remotely
access, control and
monitor doors,
thermostat controls
and appliances using
a smartphone, PC,
FiOS TV or tablet.
EMPOWERMEnt
FiOS TV Parental
Controls make
it easy to
ensure viewable
programming is
appropriate for all
family members.
A remote medical
monitoring system
powered by Verizon’s
4G LTE network uses a
series of wireless sensors
to monitor an elderly
parent’s activities and
automatically calls for help
if it detects a problem.
FiOS Internet oers
the fastest broadband
speeds, enabling
teleworkers to
download large les
quickly and conduct
high-quality video
conferences.
A TRUER CONNECTION
TO THE NEEDS OF OUR CUSTOMERS
Since the launch of the rst dot.com website in 1985, the Internet has
become the major platform for global commerce — the equivalent of the
shipping lanes that facilitated world trade in the days of Magellan or the
railroads that opened the West during the Industrial Revolution. Thanks to
the global ecosystem created by advances in ber and wireless technolo-
gies, the Internet now transports billions of dollars’ worth of intellectual
cargo, turns corporations into giant information processing machines and
puts the tools of economic advancement within reach of everyone with a
computer or a smartphone, wherever they are in the world.
On the most basic level, this increasingly widespread broadband infra-
structure allows individuals to improve their quality of life in ways
they never had before: managing home and work life, for example,
or connecting to the almost innite world of digital entertainment.
More broadly, it connects people and communities to the knowledge
work that is driving growth and wealth creation, regardless of geog-
raphy. As a new generation of wireless broadband networks begins
to link machines, buildings, factories and transportation systems into
an “Internet of Things,” a new wave of innovation is occurring with
tremendous potential to address the big issues facing the global econ-
omy, including energy, poverty, education and health care.
Verizon is working, on our own and with partners, to extend the power
of broadband and unleash its creative potential to open markets and
solve problems in new ways.
Solutions for the Connected Home
For more and more people, the home is becoming a vital hub on the
digital grid.
It starts with a ber-optic connection, which delivers high-speed
Internet and high-denition video to the home and virtually erases
the boundaries between home and work. It’s augmented with 4G LTE
wireless and a powerful new generation of tablets and smartphones,
which give users the ability to control their digital universe, wherever
they are. It’s being transformed by the increasing number of home
appliances and systems being linked to the Internet, and it’s being
integrated by sophisticated new solutions that empower users to
make their homes more functional, ecient and sustainable.
Two-way high-denition video will empower telecommuters to col-
laborate with co-workers, people with disabilities to go to the oce
and college students to attend lectures without leaving home.
In-home monitors connected wirelessly to doctors’ oces will allow
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