RING has revealed an upgrade that will make it even easier to spot intruders lurking around your property.
The world’s most popular smart video security maker has rolled out the big change to Ring Home Premium subscribers in the UK today.
Before, you would get a standard alert about motion outside your house.
But now Ring will be able to tell you in text form what it’s seen, using clever AI to identify everything from dogs walking past to possible thieves.
For example, it might pop up: “Two people are peering into a white car in the driveway.”
Or it may say: “A person is walking up the steps with a black dog.”
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Such a feature could be pretty handy for identifying intruders quicker than you normally would.
Ring says the descriptions it provides focus only on the main subject and its action, ensuring users can quickly discern if something requires their immediate attention.
And it works with other Ring cameras dotted outside and inside the house too.
To benefit you’ll need to switch it on in the Ring app.
Just go to Device Settings on the Ring app > Notification Settings > Video Descriptions.
The move comes just weeks after Amazon-owned Ring unveiled all-new devices with 4K vision and intelligent AI guards.
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Here’s the official advice…
One of the biggest mistakes people make is mounting their Ring Video Doorbell too high in the belief that they need to do this in order to catch people’s faces.
In fact, as illustrated above, viewing faces is not a problem if the Ring Video Doorbell is mounted at the correct height of approximately 1.2 meters above the ground.
The second way your Ring Video Doorbell sees the world is through a network of PIR, or passive infrared, motion sensors. These are heat sensors that detect motion by monitoring heat within the detection area.
Since people are hotter than the surrounding areas, as a person enters the detection area the heat measurements change. The motion sensors register this change as movement and send out an alert.
The motion sensors in your Ring Video Doorbell are designed to detect motion up to 155 degrees horizontally and from 1.5 to 7.5 meters outward from the fixture.
They’re also more sensitive to horizontal movement across the detection area than vertical.
Mount your doorbell too high and you’re more likely to catch the heat of passing cars than the heat of incoming visitors.
