Canary Package Detection Security Camera Mode Sends Delivery Alerts

Canary has unveiled some new features heading to its security cameras, these joining the Person Detection feature it announced back in December. The new features include one called Package Detection, which is exactly what it sounds like: the ability to detect when a package has been left on your doorstep, firing off an alert so you can get to the parcel before thieves do.

A package left sitting visible on a doorstep is a package that may be stolen. Unless you have a locking box on your porch in which a parcel can be secured, your odds of getting the box before someone else may come down to luck or how well the delivery driver hides the package. Getting to it quickly is key, but you may not hear the knock when it arrives...or, too often, there is no knock, meaning you may sit inside blissfully unaware of your parcel outside.

Package Detection aims to help solve that problem by alerting the camera owner when it detects a package left in view. This feature is powered by artificial intelligence, as is the recently announced Person Detection feature, which can detect when a human is in view.

Assuming you open the app while the delivery person is still there, you can talk to them through the camera's speaker, perhaps asking them to place the item in a different location. Canary says this feature will be available to its Canary Flex customers with Membership starting sometime by this summer.

In addition to the new Package Detection feature, Canary says it will be adding Alexa integration for its cameras, joining its existing Wink and Google Assistant integrations. Once it arrives, you'll be able to have Alexa pull up Canary footage on things like Fire TV and Echo Show.

SOURCE: Canary