In the classic movie "Home Alone," Kevin McCallister — played by Macaulay Culkin — tries to outsmart two bumbling criminals by taking home security in his own hands. Cambridge-based BeON Home is looking to bottle a little of Culkin's character inside a smart light bulb that learns your light preferences and then imitates it when you're not home. The idea is to to create the impression of a lived-in home when you're not home to prevent a burglary, according to BeON Home CEO and co-founder Alexei Erchak, who is an MIT alum. Erchak previously founded a Cambridge company called Luminus Devices, which made LED lighting for projection TVs and was later sold to a Chinese company for $22 million.
Image: Courtesy photo/BeON Home Cambridge's BeON Home's first product, a light bulb, learns your lighting patterns and then uses it to simulate to burglars that you're home. Users can switch the light on via a smartphone app.
