The My Keypad iPhone App from Honeywell Security is compatible with their security control panels and has the appearance of the actual physical keypad used to arm or disarm your security system at your home or office. This is a nice touch and also shows how the App Store is accepting more practical applications for business people. My Keypad is a part of Honeywell’s Total Connect application that allows home owners and business owners to control their security system via web browser.

My Keypad is available to all Total Connect subscribers. Once you enter your passcode on the Honeywell secure web site, you can arm and disarm your system remotely, silence the system, check the status of the security system, and bypass doors for unexpected maintence or service calls. In addition to that, you can turn lights off and on, control garage doors, and even open warehouse doors. Nice move Honeywell…

You have to love saurik.  I have been contemplating on this very subject with the iPhone. Take a look at this info from CYDIA about the program and how it keeps us iPhone user safe from those nosey peeping Toms.

“It has recently come to the attention of angry Cydia users that they are being watched by many of the applications they have installed from the App Store. Sites like I-phone-home have been discussing this in detail, leading to a post on the Dev-Team Blog about one provider in particular: Pinch Media.

Pinch Media, however, is not the only tracking provider: on the iPhone alone there are three other companies: Flurry, Medialets, and Mobclix. Developers integrate these systems for much the same reason people use Google Analytics: to better understand how their customers use their products. Unfortunately, due to the restrictions Apple places on their App Store, these providers are unable to directly interface with the users they affect. Instead, they rely on developers of every single application to document what information is being logged, and allow users to “opt-out” if they desire.

Thanks to applicatons like redsn0w and Cydia, however, these restrictions are no longer important: a system-wide global “opt-out” setting is now possible. Pinch Media realized this fact, and took the lead in contacting me regarding getting this feature out there to all the users of jailbroken devices: they care.

With BigBoss, we then contacted all of the other providers, getting not only their blessing, but also their technical expertise in disabling their systems. The result is PrivaCy: a new Settings panel that allows you to selectively opt-out of sending anonymous usage statistics to each of these providers.

This extension was a team effort, and was able to be executed as quickly as it was thanks to the help and interest of the companies involved.”

Thanks guy for keeping our business our business…