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TL;DR UGREEN is launching three smart home hubs that combine network storage, video recording, and local AI processing.
Instead of talking to Gemini in the cloud like you do with Google Home, here all voice commands are processed by the hub itself.
Depending on your needs, UGREEN’s hardware can offer some seriously heavy-duty NVIDIA AI silicon.
Smart homes are getting smarter, and that might just be a problem. While the idea of a more feature-reach, accessible, and proactive smart home sounds great on face value, the growing reliance of so many of these systems on cloud-based AI is making some shoppers think twice. UGREEN believes it might just have the solution in the form of some advanced smart home hubs.
Ecosystems like Google Home tap into cloud-powered AI continually, from processing your voice input, to analyzing your Nest camera footage. Beyond obvious privacy considerations, there’s also the subscription cost to consider with the more advanced camera functionality, to say nothing of storage.
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Rather than leaning so heavily on the cloud for those solutions, UGREEN wants to make all your smart home processing local. Everything from interpreting voice input to even watching all your cameras for package thieves can take place on one of the company’s three smart hubs: the HomeAgent HA100, HomeAgent HA100 Pro, and MasterAgent MA100.
All three offer the same basic setup — in addition to controlling your smart home with support for Matter devices, and offering AI processing, each offers a 2-bay SATA NAS as well as space for a dedicated drive for video storage.
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