Amazon Rekognition Streaming Video Events for connected home

We are always focused on making technology choices that could provide value to our customers and enable rapid growth while keeping the costs low. With Amazon Rekognition Streaming Video Events, we could launch person, pet and package detection at a fraction of the cost of developing everything ourselves. Every time a camera detects motion, we send alerts, in real-time, to our customers that are specific to events of interest such as people, pets or packages, and the latency is better than any other solution we’ve explored. This helps us filter out the noise and focus on what’s important to our customers–quality notifications. We have also improved our customer experience for video searches. Further, we could easily integrate this experience with Alexa and have not only doubled our customer engagement and satisfaction, but also seen a meaningful impact to our device sales. For us, it was obvious we didn’t want to build and maintain our own computer vision service. We turned to Amazon Rekognition’s APIs which are highly accurate, easy to incorporate into our systems, and very cost effective.

Simply relying on motion detection sensors triggers several alarms that are not a security or safety risk when there is a lot of activity in a scene. By utilizing machine learning to filter out the vast majority of such events, such as animals, shadows, moving vegetation and more, we can dramatically reduce the workload of the security operators and improve their efficiency.