The new EufyCam S3 Pro promises impressive night vision

The most recent safety digicam from Eufy — Anker’s good residence firm — can see clearly at midnight, makes use of radar movement sensing for fewer false alerts, and information 24/7 when wired. As with different Eufy cams, the brand new S3 Professional has free facial recognition, package deal, car, and pet detection, plus domestically saved recorded video with no month-to-month charges.

Not like most different Eufy cameras, the S3 Professional will work with Apple Dwelling and is suitable with Apple’s HomeKit Safe Video service.

The EufyCam S3 Professional launches this week as a two-camera bundle with one HomeBase S380 for $549.99. The HomeBase 3 permits good alerts and native storage (16GB onboard storage, expandable as much as 16 TB). It additionally connects the S3 Professional to Apple Dwelling, making it the primary Eufy digicam to work with Apple’s good residence platform because the EufyCam 2 collection from 2019.

Eufy spokesperson Brett White confirmed to The Verge that the S3 Professional might be suitable with HomeKit Safe Video. Apple’s end-to-end encrypted video storage service. “The plan is for all future gadgets to have Apple Dwelling compatibility, and we’re wanting into grandfathering older gadgets, too,” mentioned White.

The S3 Professional has a brand new shade night time imaginative and prescient characteristic known as MaxColor Imaginative and prescient that guarantees “daylike footage even in pitch-dark situations, with out the necessity for a highlight.” I noticed a demo of this expertise on the IFA tech present in Berlin this month, and it was spectacular.

A digicam was positioned inside a very darkish room, sending video to a monitor exterior, on which I might see the whole lot within the room as if it have been daytime. Eufy says a 1/1.8-inch CMOS sensor, F1.0 aperture, and an AI-powered picture sign processor energy the tech.

Whereas the colour night time imaginative and prescient would not use a highlight, the S3 Professional does embrace a motion-activated highlight that Eufy says can adapt based mostly on real-time lighting to provide the greatest picture. The sunshine will also be manually adjusted utilizing the app whereas viewing a reside stream.

New twin movement detection makes use of radar sensing expertise mixed with passive infrared (PIR) expertise. This could establish folks extra precisely and never ship alerts that there’s an individual within the yard when it’s a tree blowing within the wind. Eufy says it reduces false alerts by as much as 99 p.c. 

The S3 Professional is battery-powered with a 13,000 mAh battery that gives as much as a quoted one year of energy. A built-in photo voltaic panel can energy the digicam energy for longer. In my testing of the EufyCam S3, which additionally has a built-in photo voltaic panel, I’ve not needed to recharge it in over a 12 months.

The S3 Professional’s photo voltaic panel is 50 p.c bigger than the S3’s, and Eufy claims it may possibly hold the digicam absolutely charged with simply an hour of daylight a day. Eufy additionally contains an exterior photo voltaic panel with the digicam, so you may set up the digicam below an eave and nonetheless get energy.

Eufy says the S3 Professional information as much as 4K decision and is powered by a USB-C cable. When wired, it may possibly document 24/7 — the primary consumer-level battery-powered digicam from Eufy with this functionality.

• Full-duplex two-way audio
• Twin-mic array that may document human voices as much as 26 toes away
• A 100dB siren and motion-activated voice warnings
• A 24/7 snapshot characteristic that may take a photograph each minute
• Exercise and privateness zones
• Integration with Google Dwelling and Amazon Alexa
• IP67 weatherproofing
• 8x digital zoom

Following some severe safety and privateness incidents in 2022, Eufy has printed a brand new record of privateness commitments on its web site. The corporate additionally labored with cybersecurity professional Ralph Echemendia following the problems, and final 12 months, he accomplished an evaluation that, the corporate claims, reveals it has “met all proactive and reactive safety benchmarks.”