Security cameras just a few decades ago have set so long, long distances from the foggy, black and white CCTV camera used in the business.
From a night vision, bilateral conversation, pan and tilt, privacy shutter and alarm, there are many features that come with the best home security camera-and almost all of them can be controlled by your smartphone.
These days more and more smart home cameras are adding AI and adding AI-better features to affect potential users. As any feature, it is not just a fancy aid on to test and try all hours and whites to ensure that they are in fact standing with real -life situations and justifying the higher price.
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For this purpose, I tested the features of the four most famous smart home camera of the leading manufacturers, and each of them to find out how they stand in the real world and how they stand against each other.
Color indoor cam second general
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Indoor cam of the second generation of color is a lightweight, cylindrical camera that covers the adjusted mount, a wired connection and a manual (as well as removable) privacy that will turn off both video and audio feeds, when closed. We like this as a budget selection because it offers 1080p HD video and color night vision, bilateral talk and a siren all 60.
It features custom motion zones, real -time notifications, quick responses with pre -recorded reactions and, with advanced rolls such as my personal favorite, motion alerts that allow you to see a short piece of activity recorded from your phone. You can also look directly as a picture look at the image inside the app while performing other tasks.
Smart video search
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The color home plan provides users with 180 days recorded date and access to its main AI feature: Smart Video Search. AI feature only. Available at the premium level of the project in 19.99/month. This feature uses AI to help you find you in search of your recorded event history and it was necessary, in one word. This is the absolute winner of a feature. It is incredibly easy to find anything clip, or to find something particular.
I was able to find by general terms, for example “running children,” or “night cats”, or “black person wearing” and managing many consequences through date and time. I went to think that this was not going to be an impressive feature, to realize that I wouldn’t want to have a smart home security camera without it.
Ring Home also has a feature called device mode, which facilitates users to easily change methods and customize settings in relation to how the camera is recorded when you are away, but when you are home, you can close it. It was also helpful because it meant that the camera must disable ourselves while living at home, so whenever the cat moved to the motion zone, I did not receive dozens of warnings.
EUFY Security Indoor Cam C220
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Effie’s indoor Kim C220 has a 2K video with a knight vision and a full 360 degree pan and tilt (which is a feature I use frequently). It has many growing options, and the mood of privacy where it will remove its camera and close itself. No subscription is required to use it but if you want a video playback you will either need to pay cloud storage or use an SD card.
The identity of the noise on this device is very good, it raises a regular voice in the next room or in two overs, but that means you will receive additional information about it. And when it resisted real -time information, I felt a small break in the area.
The app is very intuitive to using, and offers a lot of control over bilateral talk, night vision, zoom, motion zone and more. This is a lot about this indoor security camera like the price point.
AI Motion Tracking
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EUFY’s AI features are primarily group groups about how the camera can find and track it. This is a feature I have been fond of because I have tested the camera in the past several weeks. It is useful to know that this device is detecting whatever movement in the room – especially when I have been using it as a baby monitor in the children’s room.
However, it will sometimes catch the movement and then rotate in a corner, leaving it in a position where my theory looks bad. So there are some defects in this feature, and you sometimes have to play with it in particular rooms or at certain angles.
The camera was also able to lift the movement even in my children’s disorderly bedroom, at night and even when the movement was a black cat, or my smallest cat, which is less than five pounds. And when one of the children dreamed of a nightmare, he did a good job of sending an alert on my phone to detect noise and motion so that I could get there soon.
Wyze CAM V4
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Wez Cam V 4 is a Petite, a small thing that looks like it can be a star of a picer film. It has a 2.5K QHD video resolution, 116 degree field of vision, color night vision and local storage thanks to the SD card slot. Its rating is IP65 Weather Proof so it is one of the options here that can be used as one of the best outdoor security cameras, and has two -way communication as well as a motion activated spotlight and siren.
Wez CamV4 has many increasing options, but there is no privacy shutter. Similarly, many features that are included with other smart security cameras are only available on an advanced membership called Kim unlimited (999.99/month), which includes customs automation, facial identity and smart mode.
It is also worth noting that all my visits were automatically sent to my iOS summary so I was not initially looking at them because I was not searching for them in a “smart” place.
AI Smart Focus
The Center for AII capabilities around the Smart Focus: An AI Motion Tracking feature that can revolve around the camera’s view, as well as identify an article, zoom in and follow. It will occupy articles within a virtual box, identify them as a person or a pet, and then follow them when they appear on the camera.
The person/pet identifier of the visits did not have any problem identifying my family members, even when my kitchen table was disastrous with Lego bags and buckets, or when they were jumping all over the place, my children tracked my children.
I like two features – finding related videos using AI and descriptive warnings that provide a detailed explanation of motion events in the notifications (“the front indoor camera saw that a suspicious person was picking up a package on your porch.
Arlo essential indoor second general
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Arlo’s essential indoor 2nd general camera has many features like other cameras on this list: it has a 2K (or HD) video record, it has night vision, two -way audio, real -time notifications and automatic privacy shield. Hardware and software here are quite straight and complicated.
Finding its icon -based movement will catch people, animals, package supply, vehicles and individually (though I did not examine it). There is no local storage here, but it offers mood and automation from the camera schedule from the app. The essential indoor general camera also has a siren and can work to contacted first respondents (police, fire or medical aid) by sharing its location and additional information.
AI safe plan
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The Arlo Secure Plan (starting at $ 7.99/a month in Arlo’s AI) comes in all that are really centers around a better home safety sense: AN Hand Plan has four features, which say that better emergency reactions provide personal, viable warnings around the watch.
First, you can see, share and save 60 days video and event recording, however, there is no way to easily find them through date or time. Then there are real -time warnings about people, cars, packages, animals and even fires. I was only able to test people and pets, but I can say that this work is in accordance with advertisement.
The last two features are custom activity zones that highlight specific areas to pay attention. When you use this feature, you will only find warnings for events that are most important or in the significant area. Finally, there is a 24/7 emergency response, which is unique to Arlo, which allows you to send the first respondents to your camera location in the same tap – a feature for which I was not particularly able to test, but I can see several scenarios where it can be extremely useful.
AI conqueror to all four
Finally, none of these cameras performed poorly and did not let me go down. When it comes to features, setups, hardware design and app functionality, each of them has their own profession and adaptation.
I would say that running more than one security camera in your home is nothing unless you are too willing to play with settings and notifications, as it can be heavy.
Although overall, I would say that AI identification for people, packages, pets and vehicles should be a minimal feature that you should find on any domestic security camera you are interested in. This is a feature that is being offered as much as possible, and you should not pay the extra cost (at least one regular subscription).
It is being said, the color capacity of using AI to enhance the event’s history search capabilities is a really useful feature that practically works well well.
So if you find yourself returning often through camera events, then its home security camera should definitely include your shortlist. And if you don’t just want your AI to identify people, but also to literally follow them as your home or property, it can be a better choice, especially if you don’t want to pay another monthly membership.
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