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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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