The Amazon-owned ring announced Wednesday that it was introducing new AI-powered features in its doorbells and cameras.
Now, when users receive real-time notifications about events on their properties, updates become more descriptive. For example, “a person is climbing the stairs with a black dog” or “two individuals are looking at a white car parked in a driveway.”
This feature is intended to improve previously available ambiguous notifications. This allows users to know exactly what is going on and quickly decide whether or not they need attention. It should be noted that AI only describes the first few seconds of a motion-activated video clip.
This feature is being rolled out today as an English-only beta for Ringhome Premium subscribers in the US and Canada. Users can choose to disable the feature by going to the Ring App Settings.
The company plans to introduce additional AI capabilities, according to a blog post from Jamie Siminoff, founder of Ring and now Vice President of Home Security at Amazon. One of these combines several motion events happening in and around the house into a single alert.
The ring also aims to implement “custom anomaly alerts” that allow users to define what constitutes anomaly in their properties, allowing the camera to notify them when such an event occurs.
Additionally, Siminoff said that the ring can “learn your routine” so you can notify the user when something is off normally. This can be unsettling for some users, especially given the ring’s past privacy concerns.
“We’re just beginning to hurt the surface of AI. We feel like we’re back to the very early days of the ring again. We’re seeing the unlimited possibilities of new experiences that we can invent for our neighbors,” Siminov wrote.
This announcement follows the recent launch of the Ring’s AI-powered search feature, allowing users to find specific moments in video recordings.
