The Nest Cam IQ is the latest product from Alphabet-owned smart home company Nest, an HD security camera with a 4K sensor it uses to do things like intelligently track faces and people at higher resolution. I’ve been testing the $299 Nest Cam IQ for a while now, and it’s an improvement over other smart home security cameras – but its IQ still leaves a lot to be desired.
While most smart cameras offer limited “smart” features, they largely work as security cameras have since their invention – showing video of an area, and providing a property management video record in case something goes wrong. The Nest Cam IQ inherits some of the smart features of its predecessor, including the ability to spot people and set activity zones, but it also adds ‘familiar faces,’ letting it maintain an index of people you recognize so that their presence will be ignored or flagged differently from unfamiliar people within its field of view.
Nest Cam IQ also has smart audio features, letting it recognize people talking, and it can identify doors to set activity zones for special areas (you can also manually set activity zones if you’d like it to watch a particular place). When it spots a person and you want to focus it, it can also ‘zoom and enhance’ effectively, taking advantage of that 4K video to upgrade a close-up area to higher res, which makes it easier to spot identifying attributes.
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