Time Warner has been creeping into home automation - I've been getting ads for their home automation service for "only" $40/month with my monthly bills for the last few months.
If TWC has their way I imagine this will go about as well as Google Wallet did, which was killed because all the mobile carriers wanted to promote their own version (formerly Isis), and had the power to do so (since they could prevent Google Wallet from working on their devices.
AT&T has also been advertising home automation and security (on national television).
I think they don't care too much about the technology, they want to market the monitoring and connection services, which I guess means they will still choose whatever favors collecting those monthly fees.
If TWC has their way I imagine this will go about as well as Google Wallet did, which was killed because all the mobile carriers wanted to promote their own version (formerly Isis), and had the power to do so (since they could prevent Google Wallet from working on their devices.