The Vera looks promising. I have an older Interlogix alarm system and have scheduled an upgrade which adds cellular connection and zwave control capability through alarm.com with smartphone interfaces. Benefit is I can remotely arm/disarm and check status of all entry sensors. They are also going to drop some trigger wires for me to connect to NVR. Problem is I can't customize this and interoperability is very limited with other systems. I am considering adding a separate zwave hub to control thermostats lights etc and interact with BI.