Smart Security Specialist Arlo announced Secure 5 and added AI Smart to Mix just a few months ago. ArloSecure6 is live, adding fire and gunshot detection, smarter search and video captions.
The subscription-based upgrades rolling out this month are based on Secure 5’s AI foundation, with a serious focus on real emergency situations and meaningful alerts.
This means new features like fire detection, screams, gunshot recognition, and improved video analysis to understand what the camera is actually seeing. So you don’t need to sift through endless clips to understand what happened.
Secure 6 uses the San Jose brand intelligence platform. Already a cloud-based AI engine that enhances awareness of people and vehicles.
Now there are a few more tools, such as describing video events in plain languages and allowing you to search history using keywords and time ranges.
The new update also adds advanced audio detection, with dog bark, screams, glass breaking, gunshots and even the sounds of smoke and CO alarms. In theory, whether it’s an intruder, fire, or a dramatic toddler meltdown, if something is down, it means you’ll get a heads-up right away.
It’s not just audible, but if Arlo’s AI sees the flames it will ping you straight away.
Additionally, event captions introduced in the update no longer require you to watch the full clip or guess which motions were detected. Instead, the AI-generated summary is retrieved.
Just like in previous versions, all the clever things live behind the Arlo Secure Paywall. A paid subscription is required. The top tier Arlo Secure Plus plan unlocks the new Secure 6 features along with 60 days of cloud storage, activity zones, 24/7 emergency response, and previously launched facial and vehicle recognition tools.
The development begins this month.
Arlo also announced that Secure surpasses 5 million paid subscribers, with its user base generating more than $275 million in revenue each year.
It’s a lot of dosh and put 90% of the best features of the device behind the paywall and proves that people cough.
