Wazo Brings Artificial Intelligence to Your Home Security
The new Wazo “All-in-One Smart Home Safety Hub” uses artificial intelligence to reduce false alarms while protecting you at the same time.
While burglary rates in the United States have dropped dramatically over the past decade, the FBI estimated that there were still 1,401,840 burglaries in 2017. According a 2010 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a member of the household was present during 27.6 percent of the burglaries that occurred from 2003 to 2007. Of those, 26 percent ended up being a victim of violent crime. Even so, false alarms are far more common than legitimate security alarms. The new Wazo “All-in-One Smart Home Safety Hub” uses artificial intelligence to reduce false alarms while protecting you at the same time.
Wazo is launching through a Kickstarter campaign, which still has two weeks left to achieve its funding goal. At its heart, Wazo is a camera-based home security system that integrates computer vision and artificial intelligence to provide a host of features that you won’t find in a typical surveillance system. Even so, the Wazo Safety Hub will work with your existing security system—including most cameras. In addition to the various home security features, Wazo also provides IoT and home automation capabilities.
Through your own cameras or the one built into the Wazo Safety Hub, Wazo will watch your home. The artificial intelligence will monitor the video feeds, and detect a number of scenarios. Those include break-ins, a visible weapon, a family member falling, and much more. You can configure the action to be taken for specific events, including having Wazo automatically call first responders. There is no monthly fee for the monitoring, and all of your data is processed on the Wazo Safety Hub itself using an NVIDIA Jetson Nano and Rockchip RK3399—without ever going through the cloud.
Even if you’re not concerned about your home security, Wazo is useful for IoT and home automation. You can, for instance, have the system turn off your living room lights when you walk upstairs. Or, have it open your smart lock on the front door when your car pulls into the driveway. Wazo can even keep an eye on your pets when you’re away from home. Wazo claims to recognize more than 10,000 different objects, and you can configure the system through the included smartphone app to respond to a variety of situations involving them.
If you want Wazo, the Kickstarter campaign will be running until October 26th. First adopters can get one Wazo Safety Hub for $475. Rewards are expected to be delivered in April of 2020.