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Own a Ring camera? This new update fixes its biggest annoyance for free

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ZDNET’s key takeaways

  • Ring adds new Single Event Alerts to its cameras.
  • AI groups motion alerts into one to cut down notifications.
  • Rolling out now to Ring Home Premium subscribers in beta.

With growing demand for more detailed security camera notifications, companies like Ring and Wyze have been introducing their own solutions. Now, Ring is launching another feature to do this: Single Event Alert, powered by artificial intelligence.

A single notification

Every time my husband goes to the backyard deck to fire up the grill, our floodlight camera sends an alert to my phone for motion detection — as it should. Yet it continues to send me phone notifications every couple of minutes while he’s out there waiting for the grill to warm up and then while he’s grilling. This is exactly what Ring’s Single Event Alerts are designed to prevent.

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To reduce unwanted notifications, Single Event Alerts consolidate related motion alerts into a single notification for the event.

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Instead of getting bombarded by one notification after another when you’re mowing the lawn or playing fetch with your dog, Ring will use AI to recognize these as a single event to alert you only once.

Of course, the feature shouldn’t prevent you from receiving urgent alerts. Instead, Ring recognizes when multiple motion detection events are all from the same ongoing activity for the purpose of notifications only — the motion events will still be saved and available to review in your Event History.

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Ring has made it so the feature integrates easily with the company’s latest AI tools, including Video Descriptions and Smart Video Search. If you have Video Descriptions turned on, Ring uses AI to analyze the generated summaries and identify similarities across events that indicate a single ongoing activity.

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Rolling out

Ring is beginning to roll out Single Event Alerts in beta to Ring Home Premium subscribers today.

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Source: Robotics - zdnet.com