Thursday, October 25, 2018

Ring Enhances Camera Features

Santa Monica-based Ring has rolled out a new batch of enhancements to its software on Wednesday, saying that it ha released new features and an updated app to help its users view images from all of their devices, and to better hone alerts received from its systems. According to Ring, it has updated its app and "Smart Alerts", now allowing for a consolidated view of all of the recent images from devices, a new feature called "Timeline" which allows users to scroll through their Ring event history on a color coded timeline, and new video analysis tools to reduce alerts to just the important ones. Ring said the new features will roll out in November. The new "Smart Alert" features include better motion detection, which Ring said will also help extend the life of its battery powered devices, which apparently are running down batteries due to false alerts. Those new features are due in early 2019, according to Ring.