On Thursday, Ring unveiled a new product for its growing smart home devices, Ruster – Ring Alway Home Cam. Unlike Amazon’s other security cameras, the Home Always always has a flying camera. Drones Dx when it is not in use. The Ring Elevs Home Cam will be available in 2021 for 250.
With this hardware announcement, Ring says you’ll be able to turn on end-to-end encryption in the Ring app’s control center “later this year” in an effort to improve the security of its devices.
A bit of ring history
Before the ring ring, it was a startup called Boat Home Auto Tomation. Butt Home Inauguration Product, 2014 Doorboat, Was among the first Video doorbells In the market. It had many problems, though – clumsy design, limited features and poor performance. Then the boat home ring was rebranded Purchased through Amazon And now increasingly selling a variety of smart home security and auto tomation devices and related accessories.
Ring is in the news for its Neighbors program partnership with law enforcement agencies, which allows Ring customers to share their saved video clips. Privacy advocates ring and how law enforcement agencies express concern Collect information and use it They gather. There is also a ring Patents for facial recognition technology That will scan through law enforcement databases.
Security is a major topic of conversation, as follows User data is set to open in December 2018. Asked the ring Requires dual-factor authentication and add privacy and security control center to the application Where customers can more easily find and change their personal account settings.
Always home cam and end-to-end encryption
The ring says why Home always travels on the set path you defined – it can’t be controlled manually – and you can watch the feed live in the Ring app. “The route is entirely determined by the customer … you can actually drive the device around your home and … train on that path and point the different way to get into the camera,” Ring president Lila Ruhi told me by phone.
It has HD live streaming and 5 minutes of runtime, and takes about an hour to charge. Ruhi said the short runtime was intentional, making it a “purposeful security camera.”
It can work with Ring alarm safety kit, So that when your activity system detects activity when setting to mode mode, Home always leaves its dock and flies around to see what’s going on.
As far as privacy is concerned, the home cam camera is always hidden when I docked and it jumps around your house and starts recording only when it flies. It is designed for hum so you know when it is flying and being recorded. The obstruction is also equipped with “obstruction avoidance technique”, so things in its path should be avoided. If it makes sense to block its normal passage, the camera will return to its dock and send a warning, letting you know that it will not be able to complete the pass around your home.
Ring has also added a video encryption page to its Control Center privacy and security landing page. Once end-to-end encryption becomes available later this year, customers should be able to turn on the feature for each individual compatible device. The ring will provide a list of compatible devices later this year.