Smart security is all we do

Where it all began

Picture the scene. You’re on holiday. You think your home is being protected by an alarm system. Suddenly, you get an alert: the alarm is going off, but there’s nothing you can do. The neighbours won’t answer the phone, and there’s no way of checking on your house. That’s what happened to Devin Chawda back in 2005, and that in turn led to the creation of Y-cam.

Y-cam was a specific response to that event. Together with his business partner, Sheng Tang, they mapped out the solution they wanted to use for themselves. A home security system that could be accessed and controlled from anywhere in the world. “We knew straight away this was what we wanted to do, so we started developing and jumped on a flight to visit some factories”, Devin recalled. By the end of 2006, the pair of them had a prototype, and the first Y-cam security product went on sale in 2007.

Since then the company has since grown significantly and continues working towards its vision of making smart home security easy and accessible to all.