Arlo Enhances Home Security with AI-Powered Audio and Visual Detection Features

Arlo Security System Now Can Alert Customers to Gunshots, Screams, Barking Dogs

Was that a gunshot? A new AI update to the Arlo home-security subscription service aims to alert its customers to worrisome sounds. Screams. Gunshots. Broken glass. Homeowners hope not to hear any of those, but now new AI features in the Arlo home security subscription service can notify customers of such sounds via email and push notifications. On Thursday, the company announced Arlo Secure 6, the next generation of its security software, which includes alerts for those sounds and others. Arlo Secure 6 also provides a suite of other features, including AI-generated captions to describe events, the ability to search through videos by using keywords or descriptions, and flame detection. Read more: Best Home Security Systems in 2025 The Secure 6 camera alerts subscribers when it detects someone screaming, a dog barking, an intruder smashing glass and gunshots. The new enhancements build off of previously introduced features, including person and vehicle recognition and custom detection. "When your dog barks, you'll be notified so you can view live video to see if your dog is barking at a stranger or just a cat," Arlo said in the release. It's a novel concept, says a CNET staffer. "I've tested advanced Arlo AI in the past, like the ability to train its visual AI on certain objects," said Tyler Lacoma, CNET home security editor. "But this is one of the only services I've seen that can recognize flames or send customized alerts about gunshots and screaming. As home security AI grows more advanced, these features are becoming more common, and Arlo is early to the game." Arlo's home security advancements increases its competitiveness in a home-security system industry that appears set to keep growing for at least the next few years, according to a recent report from Grand View Research. The report anticipates an annual global growth rate of a little more than 15 percent from the market size of $33.94 billion in 2024. Read more: I Thought I'd Hate AI in Home Security. It's Just the Opposite Driving the growth are a variety of factors, both societal and technological: growing concerns about safety and security, the user convenience of remote monitoring and control and the continued and seemingly limitless advancements in AI technology, Grand View says. The AI camera market is also booming, thanks in part to the increasing demand for next-gen home security systems. According to a recent report by Transparency Market Research, the AI camera market will grow to an estimated $35.5 billion by the end of 2034 on an annual growth rate of 14 percent. Thanks to rapid and constant improvements in image recognition, facial recognition, object detection, and behavioral analysis, AI cameras are also becoming vital in the security and surveillance, automotive, retail, healthcare, and smart homes industries.

Arlo's new AI features summarize what your camera sees

Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Arlo is introducing some new AI capabilities that allow its security and doorbell cameras to describe events and alert users when certain concerns are detected. The features are included in Arlo Secure 6, the latest version of Arlo's home security subscription service, which is set to start rolling out to customers sometime this month. Adding to the object detection capabilities introduced in Arlo Secure 5, this latest update includes advanced audio detection features that notify users when the device hears a scream, gunshot, bark, glass break, or smoke/CO alarms. Alerts will also be issued if a flame is detected by the video camera. These updates should help users to be immediately aware of any dangerous or illegal activity in the area, allowing them to view a live video feed from the camera and contact emergency services if necessary. Arlo Secure 6 also adds some features that help to bring its offerings more in line with Google Nest products. AI-generated captions will be provided that describe events that are detected in video footage, allowing users to be informed of what's happening quickly without watching the clip. A new video search tool akin to Ring's Smart Video Search is also available that lets Arlo users find specific moments in their devices' video history by searching for descriptions, keywords, or time frames to avoid manually combing through every clip in their library. These features will only be available to users who are paying for an Arlo Secure Plus or Premium subscription, which start at $9.99 per month or $29.99 per month, respectively. These prices have jumped considerably since Arlo started offering AI-powered features, having once charged just $2.99 for cloud storage for a single camera. That's a blow for Arlo customers who may never use these AI capabilities but are nevertheless forced to pay them if they want to save their video history for 60 days.

Your Arlo Security Cam Can Detect Screams, Send AI Summaries of What It Sees

The system will send users an alert, via email or a push notification to their smartphone, when it hears a scream, gunshot, glass break, or even a dog barking. Smart home security brand Arlo Security has announced the newest iteration of its subscription-based home security system, Arlo 6, offering users some eye-catching new AI-based features. The updated system will start rolling out to users later this May. You'll need to sign up for a $7.99 subscription to Arlo Secure Plus to access these new features, though many of Arlo's devices offer users a complimentary first month. Meanwhile, Arlo's Premium subscription, which allows you to hook up an unlimited number of cameras and gives you access to human safety agents to help verify potential threats, will set you back $29.99 per month. Arlo says the new system can use AI to generate "concise" and "accurate" descriptions of events, summarizing activity without needing to view the video footage. Arlo 6 users will also be able to search their library of video footage, allowing them to locate important moments by searching for specific keywords, descriptions, or time ranges, reducing the time-consuming task of browsing through old footage to find what you need. This brings Arlo up to speed with its rival smart home security system, Google Nest, which has offered similar AI captions and search functionality to subscribers via its integration with Google Home since November 2024. Meanwhile, Amazon's Ring also rolled out AI search back in October last year. Arlo has also implemented several forward-looking video and audio detection features in the new device. The camera will send users an alert -- via email or push notification to their smartphone -- when it hears a scream, gunshot, glass breaking, or even a dog barking, giving them time to contact emergency services if necessary. Users will also be able to remotely access the Arlo 6's video feed after receiving a notification, to check if their barking pet has noticed a burglar -- or just one of their neighbors. The company did include some object recognition capabilities in the older Arlo 5 platform, including the ability to spot cars and people, but the new update builds on this, giving it the ability to detect a much more diverse set of signals. Despite the immense competition in the space from big players like Amazon and Google, Arlo does seem to be making a success of building up its user base. The company announced earlier this week that its base of paid subscribers has now passed 5 million.

Arlo updates its security system to caption what cameras see and detect gunshots

Arlo is expanding the AI features offered in its subscription security service as part of its new Arlo Secure 6 update. The updated system will offer improved video search, give cameras and doorbells a greater ability to identify possible emergency events and automatically create captions for anything your security system records when it starts rolling out later in May. As part of Arlo Secure 6, cameras will not only be able to use object-detection to identify things like packages, but also send you a notification when they visually detect a flame. The list of things devices can detect via sound is also expanding to include gunshots, screams, barking and broken glass, making it easier to know when to call for help. To make it easier to review footage, Arlo is now also using AI to generate captions for the clips your security system captures, that way you don't need to watch everything to know what's going on. And when you need to pull up a specific clip, Arlo Secure 6 will let you search for "specific keywords, descriptions, or time ranges" to find what you're looking for. Both Google and Amazon have explored similar AI-powered features in their Nest Aware and Ring Home services, automatically identify smoke alarms or letting you search for a specific person or thing in video search. This Secure 6 update makes Arlo's service more competitive, while focusing on some specifics that neither Google or Amazon offer. If you're already pay for an Arlo Secure plan, you should get the new Arlo Secure 6 features starting this month. Arlo offers two versions of its Secure subscription, a Plus plan for either $8 per month (one camera) or $18 per month (unlimited cameras), and a Premium plan for $25 per month.

Arlo Technologies, Inc. Announces Secure 6 Smart Home Security Service

Arlo Technologies, Inc. announced Arlo Secure 6, the next generation of Arlo's home security subscription service featuring AI technology. Arlo Secure 6 introduces several new AI-powered innovations - fire detection, advanced audio detection, detailed video event descriptions, and powerful video search capabilities - offering users deeper insights and more meaningful context into events captured by Arlo devices. Arlo Secure enhances the features of Arlo devices and completes the security experience to provide consumers with total protection. Powered by Arlo Intelligence, Arlo Secure 6 provides an intuitive, informed security experience with real, tangible value to users. Its comprehensive suite of AI features help users better understand what's happening in and around their homes, allowing for quick and appropriate responses to potential emergency events. Arlo Secure 6 expands on the previously introduced Person Recognition, Vehicle Recognition, and Custom Detection capabilities to add: Event Captions: Transform how user review footage with concise, accurate AI-generated descriptions of events. Quickly understand what happened without needing to watch every second of video. Video Search: Quickly locate and review critical moments in video history by searching for specific keywords, descriptions, or time ranges, eliminating the need to manually sift through video library. Advanced Video Detection: Fire Detection: Lifesaving, AI-powered notifications alert user when a flame is detected, so user can prevent the spread of fire. Advanced Audio Detection: Receive notifications that tell user when a scream, gunshot, bark, glass break, or Smoke/CO alarm is detected. Arlo is committed to implementing industry standards for data protection designed to keep users' personal information private and in their control. Arlo provides enhanced controls for user data, supports privacy legislation, keeps user data safely secure, and puts security at the forefront of company culture.