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eufy is best known for its range of smart home security, including security cameras and video doorbells, as well as smart cleaning products like the best robot vacuum cleaners. Its new Dual Camera series is the world’s first home surveillance mesh powered by local AI, and is featured packed with enhanced surveillance capabilities. Oh, and it’s incredibly affordable, too.

The main advancements to the Dual Camera series is its AI detection. All four devices in the line-up (the SoloCam, the IndoorCam, the Floodlight Cam and the Video Doorbell) have cross-camera tracking, meaning if you have multiple cameras, the devices use AI facial recognition to identify the same person or animal across multiple cameras.

This new feature means the cameras can seamlessly track people and events across all devices, so there’s no interruptions or confusion with what each camera is tracking. For people who hate being bothered by app notifications, the new eufy Dual Camera series will only send you one notification rather than multiple and deliver a single auto-edited video, making your update more condensed, convenient and easier to view.

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[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Emperor 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that certainly puts a different spin on their claims to process things locally.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Right. Not only was everything not local like advertised, it wasn’t even encrypted as advertised. Never buy Eufy. Never ever ever.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point it seems that adding AI to a product description is just marketing hype.

[–] Emperor 3 points 1 year ago

It does feel like that. I'm waiting for an AI bin (trash can). But now I say it, that might stop people putting unrecyclable items in the recycling bin.

[–] Emperor 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the world’s first home surveillance mesh powered by local AI

At this point, with everyone touting fancy features, I don't know if that's a good thing, although working locally is - I expect a lot more AI to get rolled out in all sorts of products (most that probably don't need it) largely as a way to force you into a cloud-based subscription.

[–] GreatAlbatross 3 points 1 year ago

Some local smarts are useful.

Reolink cameras are now pretty good at spotting the difference between burglars, cats, and trees blowing in the wind.

They've just got to be truly local, and the cameras themselves without bullshit that stops things working if you block internet to them.