You can find AI nearly everywhere today, and home security cameras are no exception, thanks to the extensive AI video searches now offered by Google Gemini, Ring and many other brands. But startup Prompt AI and its Seemour platform, announced Tuesday, promise to go several steps further, into AI features I've never seen on a security cam before.
Seemour's third-party AI focuses on visual intelligence, with training on things like objects and movement that allows it to analyze everything your home security cams are seeing. Most home security cameras can do this -- Arlo, for example, now allows you to label custom objects for AI identification -- but Seemour goes a step beyond.
Seemour specializes in many kinds of customized security camera alerts.
Prompt AIIn addition to video summaries and personalized notifications about what it sees, Seemour touts a collection of much more impressive tricks, notably the ability to learn your pets by name for more accurate notifications and the "coming soon" ability to recognize specific individuals and remove them from video footage, increasing their privacy around the home.
Seemour's full promised list also includes other AI responses I haven't seen in home security systems before, such as specific notifications about wildlife, the ability to recognize and report a delivery (as opposed to just a package) and the ability to watch for suspicious human movement (a feature usually focused on commercial cams).
Prompt AI also plans on allowing the platform to ask Seemour questions the same way Google Gemini currently operates, such as, "Where did I put my keys?" And it's planning on incorporating specific activity alerts like a dog starting to dig a hole, which we've seen pet companies like Furbo experiment with as well.
"Imagine a future where you can ask your home what happened today or inform your roommate that you've stepped out to go to the grocery store when they open the fridge," said Tete Xiao, chief executive officer and co-founder of Prompt AI. "That future is closer than you think, and we're excited to bring it to you."
Seemour's video summaries and recognition features are familiar, but it adds a lot more to the mix.
PromptAIThe Seemour app is currently available on the Apple Store (don't confuse it for Seymour.ai, a very different service) but hasn't yet come to Android. We'll make time to experiment with it ourselves and see how good the AI training is, but you can test it out yourself, too… with one caveat. It's difficult enough to trust a well-established security brand like Nest or Ring to analyze your video with AI, let alone a startup.
Using Seemour is going to take some trust on your part, as Prompt AI doesn't have much of a security track record yet and will need plenty of information on you and your pets, as well as access to your video feeds. It's also harder to ask consumers to adopt a third-party app for their videos than simply rely on what the security cam brand has already included, which is why I expect Seemour is probably aiming for eventual built-in integrations as well.
That said, Seemour has an impressive list of potential capabilities, features I fully expect to come to other home security AIs in one form or another in the coming years. For now, Seemour seems to be first out of the gate for several of them, and I'll be keeping an eye on the service.
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