"AI could bring the smart home closer to the Star Trek dream: a central "computer" that runs your home. At IFA this week, SwitchBot - best known for its button-pushing robots - is debuting a product that lays the groundwork for at least part of that vision. The new SwitchBot AI Hu b combines local AI processing with a cloud-based visual language model (VLM) to interpret events in your home and use them to trigger automations, moving the company a small step closer to creating a truly intelligent home."
"Paired with SwitchBot's home security cameras, including its pan-tilt indoor camera and video doorbell, the AI Hub will "understand" events it detects, summarize them in text, and use that information as triggers for home automations, according to the company. For example, SwitchBot says it can recognize events such as "an elderly person falling" and take action. The hub can already identify pets, vehicles, furniture, and appliances locally, with facial recognition coming later this month. It also supports text search, allowing you to ask the SwitchBot app to search for an object or pet, and it will surface relevant footage."
SwitchBot launched an AI Hub that merges local AI processing with a cloud-based visual language model to detect and interpret events in the home. The hub connects to SwitchBot pan-tilt indoor cameras and a video doorbell to identify and summarize occurrences in text and use those summaries as automation triggers. The system can locally detect pets, vehicles, furniture, and appliances, with facial recognition planned soon. It can recognize critical incidents like an elderly person falling and take action. The platform also supports text search to find relevant footage for objects or pets.
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