From The Verge: Nearly a year ago, Netgear announced Arlo Smart, a new service built using artificial intelligence that would add new features like person detection and smart notifications to improve the experience with Arlo cameras across the board. Now that service is here, and Arlo Smart will bring a host of new features, including the ability to remotely call 911, cloud activity zones, and rich notifications to every Arlo camera the company has released — for a small fee.
There are three main aspects of Arlo Smart. The first is person detection, which is designed to cut down on the number of false positive notifications users of any smart camera know about all too well. Netgear says person detection will stop false positives that have popped up in my experience due to cars, animals, a gentle breeze — literally anything that moves. From my time testing Arlo Smart, it worked pretty great.
You’ll also be able to use cloud activity zones on wireless Arlo cameras for the first time, which will let you define motion zones and further cut down on false positive notifications. You can tell your Arlo to only send you person detection alerts and limit it to areas like your front door so your neighbors don’t trigger it when they walk down the street. My notifications were notably cut down — so much so that I thought my cameras were offline. They weren’t; they were just working better than ever.
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