Arlo is updating its Security cameras and video doorbells with additional artificial intelligence capabilitiesThe company is adding the ability for its cameras to recognize people and vehicles, and learn to detect custom objects or changes in the environment. While an Arlo camera can currently alert you when it detects a person or vehicle (as well as packages and animals), it can now be trained to tell you exactly who it sees and what vehicle.
New capabilities are part of Arlo Secure 5a suite of ai-powered features combined with machine learning. Secure 5 is now available to Arlo users in the U.S., Canada, and Asia Pacific, with other regions coming soon, according to Ashton Good, senior director of marketing at Arlo.
If the new alerts work well, they could be very useful. Ideally, they would cut down on annoying notifications (which have been something of a problem for security cameras) and send only alerts that you really need to know about.
Arlo Secure 5 adds three new features. With improvements People Detection: Arlo cameras can now offer “custom alerts tagged with names from your private library of named faces,” according to a press release. (Google and ai-Features-for-eufySecurity-Devices”>eufy (They already offer similar facial recognition features for their cameras.)
Good says the processing for facial recognition is done in the cloud, not on the device, but the images collected “are unique and specific to each account and are not shared with other users or used in any central database.” Arlo encrypts video and data during transmission and when stored in the cloud, according to Good.
The second new feature, vehicle recognition, will send alerts “tagged with known vehicles you previously named,” Arlo says.
Custom Detection is the third feature in Secure 5. Currently in beta, this feature lets you train Arlo’s ai systems to recognize specific objects or changes in your home and send you notifications. Arlo offers examples of a camera that tells you when your garage door is open or one that sends an alert if you left the lights on in the basement.
All current Arlo cameras and video doorbells will support Secure 5 and do not require an Arlo base station, Good says. However, Secure 5 features will require a subscription to Arlo Secure Plus or Premium (Starting at $17.99 per month); as they are not included in the Arlo Basic plan.
