Despite how camera manufacturers claim that their devices are smart or intelligent, the fact remains that they will not work unless they are connected to the Internet. Qualcomm wants to change this trend by developing a cutting-edge chip that will allow a security camera to be aware of what it is shooting or aiming at while offline.
Run of the mill security cameras are often triggered by motion. This leads to the current slew of "dumb" devices turning on and recording every mundane thing that moves, such as cats, the mailman or robot vacuums, according to Mashable. With the Snapdragon 618 IP camera platform, Qualcomm reveals that a security camera can do on-camera analytics like face detection, object recognition and tracking - without the need to cross-reference data in the cloud or the Internet.
"First of all, we can improve the image quality quite a bit [over current cameras]," Ra Talluri, senior vice president at Qualcomm, said in the Mashable report. "But we can also put a lot more intelligence to it, so there are fewer false positives that go over the network."
The new camera platform being pushed forward by Qualcomm is part of the wider connected camera ecosystem, which can reduce network bandwidth requirements and cloud storage costs, Market Watch reported.
The Snapdragon 618 IP Camera platform has incredible computation power and robust connectivity, powered by a six-core, 64-bit CPU with dual 1.8Ghz ARM CortexTM-A72, according to Qualcomm's official statement. Cameras equipped with the new technology will be available in the first half of 2016.
