Reolink’s New Floodlight Digital camera Makes use of Sensors and AI to Detect The place It Cannot See

Reolink rolled out a brand new sensible house safety digicam at IFA 2025 that the corporate says can see past its twin digicam lenses. It’s known as the TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi, and it seems to be form of just like the Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi, a camera I recently reviewed, however with a ball-shaped digicam housing that rotates to see issues that three sensors above them have detected.

This sensor-based strategy provides the digicam a 270-degree detection vary at any given time, in response to a press launch that Reolink emailed to Gizmodo. The three movement sensors wrap across the entrance and sides of the unit. A consultant I spoke with at Reolink’s IFA sales space instructed putting in the digicam on the nook of your property, surveying a driveway that stretches from the road to a storage farther again, a scene not possible for one fixed-view digicam to cowl—the TrackFlex may detect {that a} automotive is coming into the driveway, swivel to face it, then watch it because it drives to the storage.

Like different Reolink cameras, this one shops recordings regionally, both with microSD playing cards (as much as 512GB) or Reolink’s NVR and Residence Hub units. Saving movies to a network-attached storage (NAS) machine through FTP can also be an choice. That is Reolink, so anticipate to be assaulted with choices within the firm’s app.

As for the TrackFlex’s twin cameras, they’re not recording one broad area of view just like the Elite Floodlight WiFi. As a substitute, one is a typical huge view whereas the opposite is a 6x zoom, able to capturing much more zoomed-in element than the huge lens can. The 2 floodlights seemed precisely like these of the Elite, and might articulate to level up or down, or to wash a wider space in gentle. Additionally they provide the identical brightness and temperature adjustment because the Elite.

The digicam makes use of the corporate’s new native AI system known as ReoNeura Core, which allows the TrackFlex to do the identical types of pure language video search that we’re seeing with quite a lot of different connected-camera AI programs. (See SwitchBot’s new AI Hub.) So, if you wish to search your regionally saved video for a second, like when an individual with a brown shirt walked into your storage final, you are able to do that. The Reolink rep I spoke with took me to a pair of shows that confirmed me what was occurring behind the scenes.

On the left, it was a view of what a consumer would possibly see whereas utilizing the occasion notifications display; you see the digicam’s stay feed. Whereas on the precise, an inventory of occasions with descriptions that had been principally fairly correct—there had been folks interacting at a conference, and others had been strolling round within the background—nevertheless it obtained some particulars unsuitable. We weren’t at an out of doors occasion, for instance (though it was fairly brilliant in there).

In the meantime, on the precise, the display confirmed particular person traits of the issues the mannequin was figuring out. Seeing everybody damaged down by their attributes had a really police-station-surveillance vibe. ReoNeuro recognized one individual as a middle-aged male carrying a inexperienced, short-sleeve shirt, together with a hat and a bag. Within the backside panel, one other middle-aged male—though that individual positively seemed youthful than me, and I’m nonetheless in my prime, I swear—is recognized as carrying a long-sleeve shirt with pants, each blue, and as having quick hair. All of that element is successfully key phrases in your searches later, they usually all appear to be belongings you’d kind when you’re on the lookout for particular occasions that you understand the TrackFlex recorded.

However woof, it’s greater than just a little unnerving to see this in motion, and it felt just a little off-key to have a Reolink rep so proudly exhibiting it to me. It’s nice that that is all occurring on machine, as I’d moderately that than have it occurring in a cloud server over which I’ve no management. It’s handy and there’s little question that I would like the comfort of casually looking out my footage, however that certain didn’t cease seeing how the sausage is constituted of giving me the willies.