Nest Cam IQ

By Jon Porter

Since acquiring Dropcam back in 2014, Google’s Nest – best known for its smart thermostats – has put out a steady trickle of home security cameras. First came a 1080p indoor security camera, the Nest Cam Indoor, which was followed a year later by the Nest Cam Outdoor.

The Nest Cam IQ is the newest camera from the company, and it contains a host of new and upgraded features over the original Nest Cam Indoor.

It’s still a camera meant for indoor-use – there’s none of the weatherproofing present on the previous outdoor version of the camera – but the camera comes equipped with a much higher resolution camera sensor, which allows it to be much more intelligent with how it notifies you about what’s going on in your house.

Design

The Nest Cam IQ borrows heavily from the design aesthetic of the previous Nest Cam Outdoor with a clean white chassis attached to a surprisingly heavy base.

The camera itself has a 4K/HDR sensor (more on this later), which has a field of view that’s 130-degrees wide and it’s also got 940nm infrared LEDs for nighttime and low-light recording.

There’s a light ring around the front of the camera …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac