The most recent safety digital camera from Eufy — Anker’s sensible residence firm — can see clearly at midnight, makes use of radar movement sensing for fewer false alerts, and data 24/7 when wired. As with different Eufy cams, the brand new S3 Professional has free facial recognition, bundle, automobile, and pet detection, plus domestically saved recorded video with no month-to-month charges.
In contrast to most different Eufy cameras, the S3 Professional will work with Apple Residence and is suitable with Apple’s HomeKit Safe Video service.
The EufyCam S3 Professional launches this week as a two-camera bundle with one HomeBase S380 for $549.99. The HomeBase 3 permits sensible alerts and native storage (16GB onboard storage, expandable as much as 16 TB). It additionally connects the S3 Professional to Apple Residence, making it the primary Eufy digital camera to work with Apple’s sensible residence platform for the reason that EufyCam 2 sequence from 2019.
Eufy spokesperson Brett White confirmed to The Verge that the S3 Professional shall be suitable with HomeKit Safe Video. Apple’s end-to-end encrypted video storage service. “The plan is for all future gadgets to have Apple Residence compatibility, and we’re trying into grandfathering older gadgets, too,” stated White.
The S3 Professional has a brand new colour evening imaginative and prescient characteristic known as MaxColor Imaginative and prescient that guarantees “daylike footage even in pitch-dark circumstances, with out the necessity for a highlight.” I noticed a demo of this expertise on the IFA tech present in Berlin this month, and it was spectacular.
A digital camera was positioned inside a totally darkish room, sending video to a monitor outdoors, on which I might see every part within the room as if it had been daytime. Eufy says a 1/1.8-inch CMOS sensor, F1.0 aperture, and an AI-powered picture sign processor energy the tech.
Whereas the colour evening imaginative and prescient does not use a highlight, the S3 Professional does embrace a motion-activated highlight that Eufy says can adapt primarily based on real-time lighting to provide the finest picture. The sunshine can be manually adjusted utilizing the app whereas viewing a reside stream.
New twin movement detection makes use of radar sensing expertise mixed with passive infrared (PIR) expertise. This could establish folks extra precisely and never ship alerts that there’s an individual within the yard when it’s a tree blowing within the wind. Eufy says it reduces false alerts by as much as 99 p.c.
The S3 Professional is battery-powered with a 13,000 mAh battery that gives as much as a quoted one year of energy. A built-in photo voltaic panel can energy the digital camera energy for longer. In my testing of the EufyCam S3, which additionally has a built-in photo voltaic panel, I’ve not needed to recharge it in over a 12 months.
The S3 Professional’s photo voltaic panel is 50 p.c bigger than the S3’s, and Eufy claims it could actually hold the digital camera absolutely charged with simply an hour of daylight a day. Eufy additionally contains an exterior photo voltaic panel with the digital camera, so you’ll be able to set up the digital camera underneath an eave and nonetheless get energy.
Eufy says the S3 Professional data as much as 4K decision and is powered by a USB-C cable. When wired, it could actually file 24/7 — the primary consumer-level battery-powered digital camera from Eufy with this functionality.
Following some critical safety and privateness incidents in 2022, Eufy has revealed a brand new listing of privateness commitments on its web site. The corporate additionally labored with cybersecurity skilled Ralph Echemendia following the problems, and final 12 months, he accomplished an evaluation that, the corporate claims, reveals it has “met all proactive and reactive safety benchmarks.”