Netatmo's Welcome smart home camera can see faces, but needs more smarts

During a recent vacation, I had no fewer than three webcams watching my home. I can’t tell you how comforting it is to be able to open an app, access my Nest Cam (formerly Dropcam) to see my great room or open another app to see compressed versions of the activity in front of my house thanks to Flir FX. Added to that mix was Netatmo’s new face-finding Welcome smart home camera.

Like the Nest Cam and Flir FX, Welcome plugs into a wall outlet and then connects to your network via Wi-Fi. Unlike those devices, it includes facial recognition. As a result, it can alert you when your child arrives home and when an unknown face appears in its 130-degree field of vision. Read more...