Bottom line: Google expands the Gemini for Home program with complete APIs and pre-made hardware designs for smart cameras and speakers. Service providers can offer premium services with AI-powered home security and daily summaries. AT&T already demonstrates successful integration in its Connected Life App.
Google is turning Gemini for Google Home into a complete AI platform and opening new possibilities for service providers and hardware manufacturers. With extended APIs and pre-made hardware designs, partners can create and monetize intelligent, proactive services.
Google is making a major step forward, transforming Gemini for Google Home into a comprehensive AI platform for service providers and hardware manufacturers. As Ravi Akella, Director of Product Management at Google Home Platform, explains, service providers and hardware partners should now be able to independently develop monetizable and proactive services.
Three key AI capabilities form the foundation, which Google has already integrated into its own home services: Camera Intelligence enables cameras to recognize and describe specific events – instead of generic “person detected” notifications, users receive relevant context. With “Ask Home,” households can ask complex, personalized questions, such as “Did the dog chew the shoe on the couch?” and get real-time answers. The “Home Brief” feature summarizes sensor and video data and delivers daily, household-specific summaries.
This opens a new business field for telecom companies, internet service providers, and security firms. They can bundle Google Home premium subscriptions with premium services and offer their customers daily household overviews, intelligent security automations, and proactive protection measures. AT&T is already showing how this works: the company integrates Google Home APIs into its Connected Life App and combines Google’s camera intelligence with its own LTE backup.
To lower the high development barriers for AI-native hardware, Google is significantly expanding its “Gemini built in Program.” Partners now receive pre-made, fully validated reference designs with SOCs, sensors, and microphones – developed together with manufacturers like Amlogic, SEI Robotics, and Apical. This saves development time and costs. New for 2026 are pre-made speaker designs that support full Gemini voice functionality and can serve as smart home control hubs. For smart cameras, Google already offers a working Camera Reference Design.