State of the Art - Smart Doorbell Systems

In this paper Smart Doorbell systems are analyzed to break up modern doorbells into generations, of which the Amazon Ring series shines for those who are open to Amazon infrastructure, and the Eufy Video Doorbell remains viable for those who prefer their data to be more local.The paper also presents a new proposed Smart Doorbell system. The new proposed system allows a video classification network to run on edge devices to alert the homeowner of any significant events happening in front of their home without any other input, such as the button being pressed. The key aspect of the new proposed system is the creation of a doorbell dataset that can provide researchers with a set of videos that is large enough to properly train a network that is ready to be implemented on a user’s doorstep. The paper also identifies advances that could be realized with a proper dataset available to train a video CNN, such as real time event notifications and automatic video sorting.