Wyze Labs

Wyze Labs, Inc. (formerly Wyzecam), also known as Wyze, is a U.S. company based in Seattle, Washington, that specializes in smart home products and wireless cameras. Wyze Labs is a small start-up, formed by former Amazon employees.[1][2]

Wyze Labs, Inc.
FoundedJuly 19, 2017 (2017-07-19)
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
,
U.S.
Area servedUnited States
Founder(s)
  • Yun Zhang
  • Dongsheng Song
  • Dave Crosby
  • Elana Fishman
CEOYun Zhang
Products
Employees350
URLwww.wyze.com

History

Wyze was incorporated on July 19, 2017, by the four co-founders: CEO Yun Zhang, CPO Dongsheng Song, CMO Dave Crosby, and Elana Fishman.[3][4] On January 31, 2019, Wyze announced a $20 million investment from Norwest Venture Partners.[5]

Disputes and security concerns

In 2019 Sensormatic, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Johnson Controls, sued Wyze, alleging seven patent violations.[6] Wyze prevailed in the lawsuit, as of September 2020.[7][8]

In December 2019, the company acknowledged that a server leak had exposed the details of roughly 2.4 million customers.[9] The company's response included logging all users out of their accounts, requiring all users to reauthenticate.[10]

In 2021, Xiaomi submitted a report to Amazon alleging that Wyze had infringed upon its 2019 "Autonomous Cleaning Device and Wind Path Structure of Same" robot vacuum patent.[11] On July 15, 2021, Wyze filed a lawsuit against Xiaomi in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, arguing that prior art exists and asking the court for a declaratory judgment that Xiaomi's 2019 robot vacuum patent is invalid.[12]

In 2022, security firm Bitdefender announced that Wyze had discontinued WyzeCam v1 because of a security vulnerability that Bitdefender had reported to Wyze three years before, which is an unusually long time for a vulnerability to go unreported to the public. Wyze did not make any public announcement about the vulnerability.[13]

References
  1. "WyzeCam v2 Smart Home Security Camera Review". Gear Patrol. 24 July 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-07-08. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  2. Farhad Manjoo (6 December 2017). "The Hidden Player Spurring a Wave of Cheap Consumer Devices". NYT. Archived from the original on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  3. Swearingen, Jake (2019-02-12). "How Four Ex-Amazoners Made a Crazy-Good Wireless Cam for $20". Intelligencer. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  4. "Bloomberg – Wyze Labs, Inc. – Company Profile". www.bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  5. "Smart home camera maker Wyze Labs raises $20M after startup finds success with low-cost WyzeCam". GeekWire. 2019-01-04. Archived from the original on 2019-07-21. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  6. Honovich, John (2019-08-21). "JCI Sues Wyze". IPVM. Retrieved 2021-07-16.(Subscription required.)
  7. "Wyze Secures Complete Victory in Patent Infringement Lawsuit". www.cooley.com. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
  8. Klingensmith, Rob (2021-01-28). "How Wyze Labs Withstood a Competitor's Patent Infringement Lawsuit - IP.com". IP.com - IP Innovation and Analytics. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
  9. Cimpanu, Catalin. "IoT vendor Wyze confirms server leak". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  10. Wang, Jules (2019-12-27). "Privacy scare leads Wyze to unpair all devices from Google Assistant and Alexa, you'll need to add them back". Android Police. Archived from the original on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  11. Cheng, Isabella (2021-07-20). "Wyze Sues Xiaomi". IPVM. Retrieved 2021-07-21.(Subscription required.)
  12. "Wyze sues Xiaomi and Roborock to invalidate robotic vacuum patent and save its Amazon listing". GeekWire. 2021-07-20. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  13. Hollister, Sean (2022-03-30). "I'm done with Wyze". The Verge. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
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