Verizon Home Awareness
Home Awareness is a new service only available to Fios Customers, that once enabled provides a feeling of safety and security for your Home.
Home Awareness detects movement inside your home when WiFi signals from your internet router to connected devices are disrupted. Using artificial intelligence, the technology will detect real movement, and can distinguish movement of people from those of pets or objects.
Home Awareness can be found in the My Fios app on the Internet dashboard. Log in to the My Fios app and then click on Internet. Once the internet dashboard has fully loaded you will see Home Awareness if you have enrolled.
Setting up Home Awareness
Device Placement Tips
Before you begin setup, please review the following guidance:
Setup Tips
Step 1: Getting started: Log in to the My Fios app and then click on ‘Internet’. Once the internet dashboard has loaded, you will see Home Awareness, if you have enrolled.
Step 2: Click on setup Home Awareness: After the tutorial, you will be prompted to select from a list of devices that the system has identified as eligible with Home Awareness. Device names may be generic, but you will have an opportunity to name and locate them on the next screen. Select devices that are spread out from the router and in areas where activity usually occurs, such as the family room and other high-traffic areas. Continue to enable them for motion sensing.
Step 3: Naming and Locating devices: Your selected devices are now enabled for motion sensing. Try walking slowly around your eligible IoT devices and look for activity in the circles below. There can be a delay of several seconds before activity shows, depending on the network’s congestion, traffic, and volume. Once you have identified a device and its location, you can input that information or skip and do it later.
Step 4: Setting Sensitivity level for Notifications: Notification sensitivity affects the amount of notifications you receive. A higher setting will result in more notifications and a lower setting will result in fewer notifications. You can adjust this anytime.
Keep in mind, Home Awareness works by creating a loop between IoT devices and the router or extender (if you have an eligible extender). When a connected device is close to the router (or an eligible extender) or stacked over the router (or an eligible extender) on a different floor, then the device’s coverage loop can be very small and may result in minimal activity reported on your activity screen. If the connected devices are spread out evenly from the router (and an eligible extender), you will have a greater opportunity to have motion detected and reported in the My Fios App.