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"Vivint Car Guard plugs directly into your vehicle's OBD-II port and lets you track its location and receive alerts when it's been bumped or moved. It'll also let you know of erratic driving moves such as speeding and harsh braking, will diagnose mechanical issues, and trigger Vivint Smart Home devices such as cameras, outdoor lighting and sirens. All of this earns it our Editors' Choice for car accessories."

"Vivint is the most comprehensive smart home security system."

"Vivint Car Guard is a great way to streamline your tracking and home security."

"With the Vivint app, you can control everything that goes on in your smart home and even check in on cameras and sensors while you're away at the office or on vacation."

"Vivint’s security engine now integrates two-way with Control4 home automation systems — a technological milestone for the mass-market provider, and a nod to Vivint’s new Smart Home Authorized Pro program."

"We spent nearly two months testing the Vivint home security system and found it to be the best option currently on the market today."

"There are lots of relatively inexpensive options for everything I needed...but I had all I could do to manage her care, organize her house, deal with her pets and do my own work...I just couldn’t do it. So, I called Vivint."

"'Use an app to set a schedule that will automatically turn your smart lights and lamps on and off while you’re away to make it appear that someone is home,' says Jeff Lyman, chief product officer at Vivint Smart Home. 'This can help deter lazy criminals who are looking for an obviously vacant home and don’t want to risk encountering anyone.'"

"Best Overall: Vivint Smart Home"

"Smart Sentry is a game changer."

"The new Vivint Outdoor Camera Pro steps up its home guardian game with built-in 'Smart Sentry' technology."

"If you are not a Vivint customer, this camera could make you want to become one."

"My favorite gadget of the year so far, the Vivint Outdoor Camera Pro can sense when someone is on your property. It will then play a whistle sound and snap a picture when the intruder looks at the camera. Brilliant."

"Vivint topped the annual Utah Genius Awards rankings released last week with 74 U.S. patents earned last year for technology advancements, mostly focused on in-home automation and so-called 'internet of things' innovations."

"The Vivint Outdoor Camera Pro knows when someone's lingering on your property. When it detects an event, it lights up a ring on the camera and plays a sound to get the person's attention. As that's happening, it's sending an alert to your phone."