In a clean collection of new products and services that Amazon announced this month – including Updated Echo and Echo Dot Smart Speaker, an Update echo show 10 (It swivels!), A Tons of new Alexa commands And a New mailbox sensor – the New ring always home cam It is the tool that is generating buzz from both smart home aficionados and privacy advocates.
Wi-Fi security cameras are nothing new, but like last year Eco Frames And Echo loop (Smart glasses And ring), The Ring Always Home Cam will combine familiar technology with a wildcard new feature – in this case, an indoor drone. Basically, it is a security camera that flies into rooms inside your location, shooting video that it can then stream or upload to the cloud.
The Ring Always Home Cam is a security drone that flies around inside your home.
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This may sound tidy, but from a company that has been facing public outrage for its policy of sharing doorbell camera footage of users with police only this year, Ring Always Home Cam is only a few privacy questions. Raises more than that, not least of which is how Amazon plans to secure people’s personal data. Here’s what we know so far.
The small drone takes about an hour to charge and can fly for about five minutes before docking again.Screenshot by Juan Garzon / CNet
Why did Amazon ring make indoor drone?
Ring always thinks of Always Home Cam as a “purpose-driven security camera” mounted on a drone rather than a drone with a security camera. That said, the idea is that you can capture surveillance footage of your entire house with just a security camera that pilots through your rooms. However, for the price (keep reading for more details), you can easily buy around 12 Wedge cams.
How does it work?
You program the flight route through your home instead of literally running the Ring Always home cam with a remote control. Once this route is learned, the camera can fly for up to five minutes before recharging, which takes about an hour in the included dock. You can always see a live feed of home cam rounds in the ring app, or a recording saved in the ring’s cloud, which requires either a $ 3-month subscription to cover a ring device, or each ring The device requires $ 10 a month.
The device works with a ring alarm protection kit and must respond to unexpected activity, while the system is set to “dock” mode to allow its dock to fly around and see if Its going on. Amazon says the “obstacle avoidance technique” onboard prevents it from flying into unexpected obstacles. Instead, the drone would return to its dock and inform the owner that he faced a problem.
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How is Amazon handling security and privacy issues?
First of all, Always Home Cam’s physical camera is actually covered when the device is docked, so it cannot record or stream video while charging. It should only start when it starts flying around your house. If it flies into someone’s home, Amazon says the engine is designed to be loud enough that anyone in the same room will hear the drone passing by.
By the time the Always Home Cam goes on sale next year, Ring expects the end-to-end encryption to be available for the device as well as its other security cameras (the feature is expected to debut later this year is). This means, at least in theory, that you and only you will be able to use your data (including video recordings) saved in the ring’s cloud.
When can I get (and for how much)?
Amazon says the Ring Always Home Cam will be available “in 2021” and will cost $ 250. This is equivalent to the price of the ring’s motion-activated floodlight camera and is just $ 50 more than the ring spotlight camera, both stable.
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