Ring is finally bringing 4K video to its battery-powered doorbell camera

The battery-powered doorbells offer better video quality than Ring’s wire-free line, which so far only offers 1080p HD resolution. The company says the “redesigned internal architecture” helps support power-hungry HD video and AI features.

Boosting video resolution will feed into Ring’s new AI features, delivering sharper images to enable devices to capture more detail. The new products also have Ring’s Retinal visionan AI-powered ability that adjusts shots. Each camera comes with a free trial Ring AI Pro ($19.99 per month), giving you access to recorded video as well as all of Ring’s latest AI features.

These include Video descriptions That sends a text description of what the camera saw, and the new Ring Familiar faceswhich adds facial recognition to cameras. There too AI-powered video search Allows you to search snapshots for specific events, such as “kids riding bikes” or “black cat on porch,” and Single event alertswhich sends just one bulk alert when the camera detects similar motion, such as someone mowing the lawn.

The goal here is to reduce notification fatigue from security cameras and provide you with the information you need faster. but, The recent backlash About Ring’s use of AI in Party search feature He was created Lack of trust among some userswho are concerned that their video is being processed in the Ring cloud. There are many security camera companies that offer video processing and storage locally if you are looking for that To avoid the cloudincluding Reolink and Eufy. Another benefit of this option is that you do not need to pay a monthly subscription fee.

The new doorbell cameras and accessories are now available for pre-order on Amazon and will launch on April 29.