Video doorbells and security cameras can send you helpful notifications when they detect movement in or around your home. Amazon is now taking things one step further on its Ring devices to send you AI-generated descriptions of what they see.
Ring video descriptions will attempt to convey what’s happening at your house (“A dog is tearing up paper towels on the rug” or “Two people are peering into a white car in the driveway”). Amazon says it made the descriptions as concise as possible to make them easy to read quickly.
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Currently, you get alerts if a Ring device detects movement or spots a person. But you need to open up the recording to see what’s going on.
Video descriptions are available in beta in the US and Canada on the Ring Home Premium plan, which costs $19.99 per month or $199.99 per year. Turn it on via Settings in the Ring app; it’ll work across all of your Ring cameras.
We’ve seen similar AI-generated notifications from Arlo, Google Nest, and Wyze. The Arlo and Nest options also add facial recognition to make video descriptions even more helpful.
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Amazon says to expect more AI across all of its Ring products. A blog post from Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who recently returned to the company, teases combining motion alerts around your house into one notification.
He also discusses “custom anomaly alerts” that only alert you to unique occurrences. “It will learn the routines of your residence, get smarter, and deliver peace of mind by only notifying you when it is something out of the ordinary,” Siminoff says.
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