Facial Recognition Camera: How to Choose the Best Camera

Once limited to professional contexts, security cameras are now accessible to homeowners—and the advanced technologies they incorporate are revolutionising security. Facial recognition is one such feature: this capability, which allows your system to distinguish between different individuals, is made possible by cutting-edge artificial intelligence. What are the advantages of these devices in real-world settings? What criteria should you consider when choosing a facial recognition camera? How does Netatmo’s Indoor Camera Advance stand out from its competitors? Let’s explore!

How Does a Facial Recognition Camera Work?

The principle behind a surveillance camera is straightforward: a high-quality camera, potentially mobile, with a suitable viewing angle for its intended location, which begins recording when unusual movement is detected. While this solution works, it lacks nuance, naturally defaulting to an ‘all or nothing’ approach. Indeed, without any means to distinguish between various types of movement, tell the difference between a cat and a person, let alone identify individuals, the system triggers constantly...

A facial recognition camera, however, relies on advanced AI algorithms to truly analyse the environment and, specifically, discern individuals’ unique features. You can configure the system by creating a database of authorised people. It will only alert you if it detects an unrecognised person and will remain dormant when you or your loved ones are present.

What Are the Benefits of Facial Recognition Cameras?

As we’ve just mentioned, facial recognition brings a new dimension to video surveillance, allowing your system to play a much more active role in securing your home.

Enhanced Security

Being able to identify people who enter your cameras’ field of vision and automatically determine whether they’re authorised adds an extra layer of security.

Quick and Appropriate Response to Intrusion and Break-Ins

By immediately recognising people, your facial recognition camera can reliably alert you when it detects an unknown individual or someone on a watch list. The system informs you through a customised smartphone notification, records footage, and can even contact a third-party authority if you deem it necessary or if you don’t respond.

Fewer False Alarms

Surveillance cameras without built-in intelligence are somewhat like the modern incarnation of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf.’ Unable to distinguish between individuals, they often react even to harmless movement. Facial recognition cameras with more advanced features can analyze not only each person’s unique features but also the exact cause of motion, minimising the risk of false alarms.

Greater Simplicity

If you choose the right facial recognition camera model, you’ll benefit from a home security system that knows when to stay unobtrusive. The most advanced solutions can, for example, activate when you leave home and deactivate automatically when you return.

Additional Features

Facial recognition lends itself to many other functions. You can use your cameras to facilitate access for authorised people without keys or cards, configure a smart doorbell, create a watch list, and more.

What Criteria Should You Consider When Choosing Your Facial Recognition Camera?

The choice of facial recognition cameras continues to expand, and selecting the ideal model for your needs is becoming increasingly complex. That’s why it is crucial to understand the elements that truly make a difference:

The video sensor’s image quality ensures system reliability. Choose a model capable of capturing HD images, at least 720p. Better yet, opt for a 2K HDR sensor.

Your camera’s night vision (infrared vision) is equally important, especially considering that approximately 20% of burglaries occur at night.

Detection technology makes all the difference between a basic camera and a facial recognition camera model. The more precisely your camera can distinguish between people, types of movement, and situations, the more you can count on its effectiveness.

The field of view must suit the space you wish to cover. The wider the field of view, the larger the area you can monitor. But beware: a wider angle isn’t necessarily preferable if the room is modestly sized.

Your Wi-Fi network connection and data processing and storage technology must be 100% secure. Images transit via the web to access the video stream on your smartphone, so it is essential that they cannot be intercepted.

Compatibility with your chosen Smart Home application, such as Alexa or Apple HomeKit, is another point to verify to avoid any disappointment.

Continuous service without subscription is also a distinguishing element, as solutions without additional fees are now quite rare.

Discover Netatmo’s Smart Indoor Camera in Its Advanced Version!

Netatmo’s Netatmo’s new Indoor Camera Advance Advance ticks all these boxes and more!

Use the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Secure Your Home

This facial recognition camera employs cutting-edge technology that harnesses AI to enhance your security. Capable of differentiating between your loved ones, your pets, and unfamiliar faces, it alerts you only in the event of an actual intrusion.

Your Home Under Your Watchful Eye Wherever You Are, Day and Night

Whether you’re in the next room or thousands of miles away, you can check that your child is still playing safely or that no one has entered your house uninvited. Even at night, you can count on the infrared vision of the Netatmo Smart Indoor Camera. Your smartphone acts as a link between your home and you!

Your Loved Ones’ Privacy Always Protected

Facial recognition identifies intruders and allows you to disable notifications and recordings when your loved ones are concerned. The indoor camera is fitted with a confidentiality shutter that automatically lowers whenever you or someone the system knows returns home, thus preserving their privacy with Netatmo Smart Privacy. The second you and your family leave again, your exit from the virtual zone surrounding your home is detected through geofencing technology, and the shutter immediately opens back up. You can leave the house in complete peace of mind, knowing that it’s perfectly protected.

Your Data in Good Hands

With Netatmo, video processing and storage operate securely to better guarantee your daily peace of mind. A private VPN provides access to data stored locally on an external SD card. You can also store your videos on your own FTP server or in the Cloud with iCloud or Dropbox.

High-quality images for optimal surveillance

The Advance Indoor Camera pushes the boundaries of home monitoring by delivering strikingly clear 2K HDR footage at 30 frames per second, along with a wide 130° field of view. Paired with its pivoting mount, this clever design offers you a panoramic view of your space without requiring any manual adjustments. You’ll never miss a single corner, making it easy to spot any suspicious activity—even if it occurs at the very edge of the camera’s field of vision.

Clear communication thanks to Beamforming technology

To complete this cutting-edge setup, Netatmo’s Indoor Camera Advance features two microphones and a high-quality 80dB speaker, all enhanced by Beamforming technology. In essence, this process captures and focuses sound waves to improve transmission quality: ambient noise is filtered out, and your voice comes through far more clearly, no matter where you are. You can thus react and communicate in real-time with your loved ones—or deter an intruder—thanks to crystal-clear, echo-free sound.

Your Home Secured Without Any Subscription

All your facial recognition camera features are available without any subscription or additional costs. Your data belongs to you and your equipment, too! And, thanks to the Home + Security app, your camera benefits from automatic and free updates: it will never become obsolete.

A Sleek and Elegant Design

Finally, Netatmo wanted to make its design a distinguishing element, unlike most surveillance cameras on the market. Our indoor camera coexists reliably and smoothly with your smart home and blends into your interior without compromising your aesthetic choices.