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Ring today announced Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro, its most advanced outdoor security camera equipped with 3D Motion Detection with radar and Bird’s Eye View. The all-new Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro is a re-imagined floodlight that builds upon the features of the popular Ring Floodlight Cam to monitor outdoor spaces with motion-activated LED lights and HD video, providing homeowners more insight into what’s happening around their property.

Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro

Now the most advanced outdoor camera in Ring’s lineup, the newly re-designed Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro is equipped with Ring’s new innovative features, 3D Motion Detection and Bird’s Eye View, a 110db siren and color night vision. Additionally, new Audio+ helps users hear what’s happening more distinctly, with crisp, clear sound thanks to an array microphone for enhanced audio and echo cancellation. Users can easily hardwire Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro to the outside of their home and connect to wifi for around-the-clock power. Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro enables customers to check in on their property anytime from anywhere from their mobile or Alexa-enabled device, and see and speak with visitors in real-time. 

Designed with privacy and security in mind, Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro includes advanced features such as Customizable Motion Zones that trigger recordings, and Privacy Zones that exclude areas in the camera field of view from video recording. 

Expanding 3D Motion Detection Around the Home

Committed to providing customers with new features that make their cameras work better for them, Ring is expanding its 3D Motion Detection technology to Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro to give customers more control of the motion alerts they receive. 

With 3D Motion Detection technology, Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro allows homeowners to customize which areas of their property to monitor by selecting distance thresholds. The radar sensor determines when an object crosses the distance threshold by measuring its specific distance from the camera, and the camera then only activates once that threshold is crossed, sending homeowners a motion alert. 

Powered by 3D Motion Detection, Bird’s Eye View provides an aerial map view of the motion events in front of the floodlight camera and clearly shows the path visitors take when visiting the property. Also available on the Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2, this new feature creates a visual representation of the path traveled once a visitor crosses the selected threshold but before a motion alert is sent, so the homeowner has greater understanding of what’s happening when viewing individual videos from each device in the Ring app. 

Pricing and Availability

Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro is $324.99 and is available for pre-order at Ring.com and Amazon.ca. Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro will begin shipping to customers on May 6, 2021.

Ring today announced Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2, a new advanced video doorbell complete with innovative 3D Motion Detection with radar, enhanced audio capabilities with an array microphone, and customizable privacy features. Combined with a new Head to Toe video, 3D Motion Detection and Bird’s Eye View gives homeowners more context about what is happening at their front door. 

The Next Generation of Motion Detection with Radar Technology

Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 uses radar to better detect objects and homeowners can customize which areas of their property they want to monitor by selecting distance thresholds. The radar sensor determines when an object crosses the distance threshold by measuring its specific distance from the camera. The camera only starts recording once that threshold is crossed, and sends homeowners a motion alert. Unique to Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2, 3D Motion Detection gives you more control to record video only when and where someone steps onto your property.

3D Motion Detection also powers a new Bird’s Eye View feature, which provides an aerial view of the homeowner’s property and a map of where a motion event starts to give you historical context to the nature of the event. Together, 3D Motion Detection and Bird’s Eye View are the newest way for homeowners to get more control and context about what’s happening in front of their door. 

Premium Features and Convenience

Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 is Ring’s most advanced wired doorbell that lets homeowners check in on their front door no matter where they are. In addition to 3D Motion Detection and Bird’s Eye View, advanced features include Head to Toe video, 1536p HD video, and an array microphone that limits sound distortion for clearer audio and video of what’s happening at the door. 

Designed with Privacy and Security in Mind

Like all Ring products, Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 is built from the ground up with privacy and security in mind. The Ring app makes it easy to tailor specific privacy and security settings. Homeowners can set 3D Motion Detection thresholds and Customizable Motion Zones that trigger recordings and Privacy Zones can exclude areas in the camera field of view from video recording for added privacy.

Pricing and Availability

Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 is $324.99 and is available for pre-order at Ring.com and Amazon.ca. Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 will begin shipping to customers on March 31, 2021.

The risk with having an IP enabled security camera inside your home is that some hacker might get access to it and see into your home at will. That’s not far fetched as that has happened. But bad as that is, the fact that the people who make said camera can do exactly the same thing is worse. Case in point is Amazon owned Ring. The Intercept is reporting that  Ring employees had unfettered, unnecessary access to customer camera feeds with the only thing being required is a email address.

This apparently stared in 2016 when Ring allowed its Ukraine-based research team to access every video created by Ring cameras around the world. What’s worse is that the videos were not encrypted, could browsed easily and viewed just as easily, and as mentioned above, tied to specific customers via an email address. And what is really, really bad is that this is apparently still going on to this day.

Now Ring had this to say when asked about this:

We take the privacy and security of our customers’ personal information extremely seriously. In order to improve our service, we view and annotate certain Ring videos. These videos are sourced exclusively from publicly shared Ring videos from the Neighbors app (in accordance with our terms of service), and from a small fraction of Ring users who have provided their explicit written consent to allow us to access and utilize their videos for such purposes

So in short, Ring users who opt into the Neighbors system, which allows for sharing of videos to “create safer videos” are unknowingly opting in to potentially having those videos viewed by Ring employees. That’s a #EpicFail. I guess the take home messages are as follows:

• If you value your privacy, don’t use Ring’s Neighbors system.
• If you really value your privacy, don’t buy a Ring camera as clearly they do not take privacy seriously regardless of what they say.
• How many other companies who make IP enabled cameras do this?

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THE RiNG, is a slim, round aluminum attachment that adheres to the back of any smartphone, device, or case. It is lightweight and unassumingly simple in appearance, yet incredibly sturdy, stylish, and powerful in function. THE RiNG brings you confidence, comfort, and style to your mobile device experience. Early adopters will be able to get one for $20 on Kickstarter.