AT&T Adds Gemini Video Search and Daily Summaries to Connected Life

AT&T announced on November 4, 2026 that its Connected Life home security service has launched Gemini for Home features that describe recorded events, support conversational video searches and turn household activity into a daily summary.

AT&T describes Connected Life as the first home security product to integrate Google Home Premium’s advanced capabilities, included in its security offering to new customers. The system can generate natural-language descriptions of deliveries, including the number and size of items, who made the delivery and who else came to the door.

Gemini Features Join Professional Monitoring

Searchable Video History lets customers ask conversational questions about recordings, such as what dug up the yard or who let the dogs out, instead of scrolling through a timeline. Home Brief condenses hours of video and household activity into one readable daily narrative. The continuous-recording addition lets customers review footage beyond event clips.

The Professional monitoring plan costs $29.99 per month plus applicable taxes, requires AT&T wireless and/or internet service and includes Google Home Premium Advanced. It provides 60 days of event-based video history and 10 days of 24/7 recordings for cameras and wired doorbells.

The Essential plan costs $15.99 per month plus applicable taxes and includes Google Home Premium Standard with 30 days of event-based video history. The plan structure makes Professional monitoring the access point for the Gemini event descriptions, video search, Home Brief and continuous recording.

Professional monitoring uses a US-based Abode monitoring center that watches the system around the clock and can request police, fire or emergency medical services after an eligible alarm signal. The security hub has built-in battery backup and AT&T cellular backup for power or internet outages, while the Connected Life app supports arming, disarming and checking video feeds.

Proximity Automation and Exploratory Wi-Fi Sensing

Connected Life can arm or disarm automatically according to the customer’s geographic proximity to home, without requiring the customer to touch a phone. AT&T said it is exploring how Wi-Fi signals already inside the home could support proximity and occupancy sensing. That work remains exploratory rather than a launched capability.

The Gemini tools require the Professional plan, the Connected Life app, Wi-Fi and an internet connection. Video searches require both an event and an object within that event to have been captured. The features are subject to change, limited to select countries and languages and independent of other Gemini apps. Results may vary, and AT&T instructs customers to check responses for accuracy.

AT&T also cautions that featured Google Nest products and services depend on working internet, Wi-Fi and, in some cases, app availability. They were not designed specifically for life-sustaining or safety-critical uses.

The packaging ties AI interpretation, video retention and professional monitoring to a single AT&T subscription. The remaining ambition is to extend awareness beyond cameras: proximity automation is available, while Wi-Fi-based occupancy sensing remains an engineering exploration rather than a customer capability.