AI-based home security spans a lot of different features nowadays, from cameras being able to identify people to alerting homeowners to fires. Home security brand Arlo wants to streamline things even further with event captions and video-based search.
Having previously updated its smart home security range with features like person and vehicle recognition, the American brand recently launched Arlo Secure 6. It’s the latest version of its subscription service that adds various features on top of each device’s built-in smarts.
Event captions are now available to users on the $15 monthly Arlo Secure Plus plan, summarising any happenings picked up on camera. According to Arlo, the feature “generates concise and accurate descriptions of motion-detected events”.
Instead of reviewing footage manually, Arlo intends for the feature to provide the SparkNotes version via text. Based on the feature’s description, it describes events, like a package delivery, via text in the Arlo Secure app.
Coming later, Arlo’s video search feature lets you search for specific footage by using text-based queries. Like a lot of tech companies, the emphasis is on using “natural language”. So, you shouldn’t need to use specific phrases; the feature should find footage based on a description of what you’re looking for.
Arlo’s video search announcement follows several similar features from competing smart home security brands. Amazon’s Ring brand rolled out a beta text-based video search in March this year for its $29.95 monthly Home Premium subscribers. Meanwhile, Reolink announced a local AI search feature on its Floodlight Elite WiFi camera, without the need for a subscription or cloud connectivity.
Arlo hasn’t confirmed an exact date for its video search feature, other than saying it will “roll out in the coming months”. Until then, Arlo users can rely on event captions to get quick summaries of what’s happening at home.
