There are plenty of ways to keep tabs and watch over your home these days, and you don’t typically need long stretches of cable to make it happen.
While the good ol’ days of home security cameras consisted of network cables and hard drives and mounting cameras to walls (oh my!), these days WiFi makes life a little easier. You can more or less grab any number of security cameras, attach it to a wall, wirelessly connect it to your network, and you’re good to go.
Except for one problem: you’re probably only looking at one specific angle.
If it’s on the front of your house, it’s probably straight on, maybe with a little more width from the sides and an ultra-wide angle lens. And if it’s the side of the house, well it’s clearly the side without as much control.
It’s no wonder that home security systems often come with several cameras, adding more work to install and monitor, but giving you more points to check and track and record.
That could also be why Reolink’s latest camera looks to be interesting. Called the “TrackFlex”, it’s a WiFi floodlight camera boasting 360 degrees of coverage, thanks in part to two lenses you can switch between, and tracking between them.
The cameras range between a 4K wide angle and a 6X zoom lens, allowing the system to move between far back at a wide angle and closer to the action, simply by switching between cameras.
Reolink’s TrackFlex can be triggered by a 270 degree motion detection sensor able to pick up at a range of between 2 and 10 metres, while the floodlight illuminating the scene doesn’t have to be blindingly bright white, and can instead be a warmer colour if you like, making it different from most floodlights we’ve seen in the past.
Once something has been recorded, the camera can use a little bit of AI to look through the video, using on-device AI to identify people, animals, cars, and packages, and allowing you to search for scenes and moments accordingly. There’s even a 110 decibel siren if you need to warn people away.
There’s also a gimbal for controlling the lens positions, which is where the “Flex” likely comes from in the name, while Reolink keeps the recording capability from the previous Altas camera we checked out, allowing you to store the footage on a microSD as opposed to forcing you to the cloud.
Pricing for the camera sees the Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi land in Australia for $399, with the security camera available now.
