Ring Solutions of Malvern gets a real boost from Amazon

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The first-generation Ring video doorbell attached next to the front door of a house. (Photo courtesy of By Ring - https://ring.com/press, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org)

Just last year Malvern-based Ring Solutions, a team of home-automation engineers, faced a questionable future. But Amazon came to the rescue.

Amazon’s billion-dollar purchase of Ring, California-based maker of a popular video doorbell system, is looking like a big step up in the world for the Malvern engineers and their previous employer, the former Internet of Things developer Zonoff, writes Joseph N. DeStefano in the Philadelphia Daily News.

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Ring fits with Amazon’s plans to play a larger role in smartphone-era homes and businesses: “Alexa can be the brains on the inside, with Ring as the eyes on the outside,” writes Internet-of-Things-watcher Stacey Higginbotham on her Texas-based site, StaceyOnIT. Higginbotham expects Amazon will operate Ring as a separate vision, “like it does with Audible and Zappos” — or Amazon Woot!, the “wild outpost on the fringe” of Amazon’s retail business, which last fall opened a clothes-printing plant and distribution center in East Norriton, Montgomery County.

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